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Grasping complexity: analysing risk for sustainable development

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Summary, in English

Sustainable development relies on our ability to make decisions today that

will determine our tomorrow. Given that uncertainty is explicitly allowed to influence

our view of what the future holds for us, most ex ante analyses of challenges for

sustainable development can be viewed as analysing risk. Many frameworks for

analysing risk exist today, but analysing risk for sustainable development entails

different requirements. By applying a combination of traditional science and design

science, this thesis presents six such requirements, informed by available theory and

new empirical studies. The thesis also presents six criteria for scientifically developing

frameworks for analysing risk for sustainable development.

Department/s

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

Lund University

Topic

  • Other Civil Engineering
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • design
  • sustainable development
  • Development
  • risk
  • risk analysis
  • sustainability science
  • disaster
  • value
  • hazard
  • vulnerability
  • system
  • capability
  • human-environment systems
  • systems approach
  • design science.

Status

Published

Research group

  • LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management

Supervisor

Defence date

17 December 2010

Defence time

13:15

Defence place

Lecture hall V:B, V-building, John Ericssons väg 1, Lund University Faculty of Engineering

Opponent

  • David Alexander (Professor)