Navigating uncertainty in environmental composite indicators

Navigating Amazonia under uncertainty: past, present and future environmental governance

One of the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century is the continued rapid deforestation of Amazonia. The 2005 dieback crisis emphasizes the unprecedented challenges facing Brazil. The examination of past and present institutions for ecosystem management, in Amazonia, shows structural barriers across public, private and community arrangements. The adaptive governance concept h...

Navigating uncertainty.

Thought leaders, creative types, and scientists may embrace uncertainty as a route to creativity, discovery, and fulfilment. But uncertainty is often ignored, feared, and hushed up in clinical medicine. Our editorialist Steven Hatch invites clinicians to stop trafficking in certitude, with diagnoses and research results that sound triumphantly final (doi:10.1136/bmj.j2180). If we sound certain ...

Navigating environmental attitudes.

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is that it is the creation of two groups each of which seems barely aware of the existence of the other. The one studies the human community almost as if it were a separate entity, and calls its findings sociology, economics, and history. The other studies the plant and animal community, [and] comfortably relegates the hodge-podge of politics to “the liber...

How Navigating Uncertainty Motivates Trust in Medicine.

Three significant factors in the shaping of modern medicine contribute to broad perceptions about trust in the patient-physician relationship: moral, professional, and epidemiological uncertainty. Trusting a physician depends first on trusting a person, then trusting a person's skills and training, and finally trusting the science that underwrites those skills. This essay, in part based on my b...

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