By Koppenjan J., Klijn E.

As private and non-private zone firms paintings extra often in partnership, handling uncertainties, difficulties and controversies turns into more and more tricky. regardless of subtle expertise and information, the strategic networks and video games required to unravel uncertainties develop into extra complicated and extra very important than ever before.Managing Uncertainties in Networks is a brand new textual content that examines advancements within the zone of community method. Differentiating itself from different coverage community methods that have a often learn concentration, this article has a managerial orientation featuring options and administration strategies for private and non-private region companies in addition to the analytical instruments required through practitioners trying to help their very own inner choice making and process formula.

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Their efforts are then aimed at convincing other parties of the conclusiveness of their research. The shortcomings perceived in the research of others may provide a motive for parties to try to do better themselves. But it may also be the case that while experts and contractors are aware of the limitations of their own research, this does not inhibit them from using that research as legitimation for their arguments. All the more so since others are using research in the same way. Thus, Wildavsky (1995) points to a frequently found pattern in environmental and security issues: coalitions of pressure groups and government organizations spread alarming stories on the basis of scientific research that are then broadly discussed in the media, but which prove ultimately to be untenable.

The tobacco industry has rejected the report ‘Tobacco Explained’ from the British Action on Smoking and Health as a ‘subjective selection of facts for industry documents’, while European governments regard this report as authoritative. Comparable discussions occur on the expected positive and negative effects of, for instance, the construction of airports, nuclear facilities, disposable waste facilities, highways, railroad connections, the effects of biotechnology on food safety, etc. (Wynne, 1982, 1989a/b; see Wildavsky, 1991, 1995; Jasanoff, 1994; Hisschemöller and Hoppe, 1996; Pauly, 2001).

Chapter 9 presents opportunities for managing strategic uncertainty through the initiation, design and facilitation of policy games. In Chapter 10, we address opportunities for influencing institutional factors and the empirical and normative limitations involved. We conclude the book with Chapter 11, in which we present an overview of the findings, resulting from the analysis in this book. In addition to this we reflect on the conditions which influence the opportunities for management of uncertainties and we also look at the normative assumptions and implications involved in the choice of a network approach in attempting to manage uncertainties in modern society.

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