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Global Environmental Change: Management Under Long‐range Uncertainty
Author(s) -
Nijkamp Peter
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.1994.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - sketch , dilemma , environmental change , range (aeronautics) , environmental resource management , management science , risk analysis (engineering) , political science , business , engineering , computer science , climate change , environmental science , epistemology , ecology , philosophy , algorithm , biology , aerospace engineering
This paper gives an overview of social science challenges in global environmental research. After a sketch of backgrounds, the ‘social dilemma’ is introduced as a major research question. It is asserted that current uncertainties over global environmental change provoke innovative studies on risk behaviour and management of long‐range, largely unpredictable, phenomena. Various illustrations of new research initiatives and directions are given.