Resilience: Accounting for the Noncomputable

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2900
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Carpenter, Stephen; Folke, Carl; Scheffer, Marten; Westley, Frances
Journal:	Ecology and Society
Volume:	14
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Date:	2009
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2900
Sector:	General & Multiple Resources
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Subject(s):	resilience adaptation environment
Abstract:	"Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise. Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglecting aspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about them. The tendency to ignore the noncomputable can be countered by considering a wide range of perspectives, encouraging transparency with regard to conflicting viewpoints, stimulating a diversity of models, and managing for the emergence of new syntheses that reorganize fragmentary knowledge."

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