complexity
Towards governance in complexity
How to provide good science advice to policymakers, under conditions of scientific complexity and uncertainty?
There are three points that I would like to make. (more…)
ambiguity
Ambiguity as a manifestation of complexity
Building on the uncertainty literature, we* conceptualize ambiguity as the type of uncertainty that emerges from complexity.
complexity
Why complexity matters
Why write a blog about complexity and science for policy? Because complexity matters for science advice to policy. Complex systems may lead to a situation in which science cannot provide all answers. Complexity refers to situations in which “the whole is different from the sum of its parts”, because of emerging properties at different scales of analysis. This situation is challenging for governance, because providing evidence on “the parts” will lead to different decisions than providing evidence on “the whole”.