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The news is full of disasters: droughts, floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, chemical spills and more. They are more frequent, and their scale of impact is growing according to UN reports. A whole industry focused on disaster risk reduction and response … Continue reading → …
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How to respond to and prepare for pandemics is a top policy priority, but there are many uncertainties. In the fifth chapter of the book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World, I focus on the lessons from the … Continue reading → …
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‘Critical infrastructures’ are those that deliver important goods and services to society in the face of high levels of variability. They may be electricity supply systems or food producing systems, for example. The key question is how do the goods … Continue reading → …
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In the regulation of new technologies, the questions of what is safe for whom are always thrown up. This is the third blog in a short series discussing the new book – Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. … Continue reading → …
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This blog continues the short series on the new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. In the chapter on Finance and banking, I look at the 2007-08 financial crash and how particular models and regulatory practices created … Continue reading → …
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Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. Uncertainties are everywhere. But how can we navigate them successfully? As Helga Nowotny described in her book, such “uncertainties are written into … Continue reading → …
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Time to catch up on some of the blogs that you missed! Below are listed the top 15 blogs by views this year. Lots of themes to explore – on land, agriculture, drought and much more. The year started with … Continue reading → …
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I was pointed to an intriguing World Bank report recently – Creating markets in Zimbabwe: Mobilizing the private sector in support of economic transformation – that came out earlier this year. It is striking in a number of ways. Not … Continue reading → …
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Land tenure reform is the big topic across sub-Saharan Africa amongst governments and donors alike. But how does it work, what are its consequences and how do interventions imposed from outside intersect with existing tenure and land governance arrangements? These … Continue reading → …
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The UK went to the polls last week with Keir Starmer, as widely predicted, now installed as prime minister and the Labour party in power for the first time in 14 years. This blog asks, will this bring a change … Continue reading → …
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