{"title":"Ian Scoones","description":"\u003cp\u003eIan Scoones explores the intricate relationships between society, environment, and development with a focus on resilience and adaptability. His works delve into understanding how communities navigate complex ecological and social challenges, offering insights grounded in rigorous research.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis on sustainability, uncertainty, and transformation, presented in a clear and accessible style. These books are essential for those interested in science, nature, and the intersection of knowledge and practice in development.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"navigating-uncertainty-by-ian-scoones-9781509560080","title":"Navigating Uncertainty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential and, as the book explores, this is much more than just managing risk. But how is this done, and what can we learn from different contexts about responding to and living with uncertainty? Indeed, what might it mean to live \u003cem\u003efrom\u003c\/em\u003e uncertainty?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on experiences from across the world, the chapters in \u003cem\u003eNavigating Uncertainty\u003c\/em\u003e explore finance and banking, technology regulation, critical infrastructures, pandemics, natural disasters and climate change. Each chapter contrasts an approach centred on risk and control, where we assume we know about and can manage the future, with one that is more flexible, responding to uncertainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that we need to adjust our modernist, controlling view and to develop new approaches, including some reclaimed and adapted from previous times or different cultures. This requires a radical rethinking of policies, institutions and practices for successfully navigating uncertainties in an increasingly turbulent world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426341044460,"sku":"9781509560080","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509560080.jpg?v=1774767927"},{"product_id":"dynamic-sustainabilities-by-ian-scoones-9781849710923","title":"Dynamic Sustainabilities","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLinking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political, and moral challenges of our times. These must be met in a world of rapid, interconnected change in environments, societies, and economies, and globalised, fragmented governance arrangements. Yet despite growing international attention and investment, policy attempts often fail. Why is this, and what can be done about it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow might we understand and address emergent threats from epidemic disease, or the challenges of water scarcity in dryland India? In the context of climate change, how might seed systems help African farmers meet their needs, and how might appropriate energy strategies be developed? \u003cem\u003eDynamic Sustainabilities\u003c\/em\u003e lays out a new 'pathways approach' to address sustainability challenges such as these in today’s dynamic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an appreciation of dynamics, complexity, uncertainty, differing narratives, and the values-based aims of sustainability, the pathways approach allows us to see how some approaches are dominant, even though they do not produce the desired results, and how to create successful alternative 'pathways' of responding to the challenges we face. As well as offering new ways of thinking about sustainability, the book also suggests a series of practical ways forward—in tools and methods, forms of political engagement, and styles of knowledge-making and communication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, the practicalities of the pathways approach are illustrated using four case studies: water in dryland India, agricultural seeds in Africa, responses to epidemic disease, and energy systems\/climate change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in association with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47605611692268,"sku":"9781849710923","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781849710923-dynamic-sustainabilities.jpg?v=1778135604"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ian-scoones.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}