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RI 2016: Week 3

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Managing Uncertainty and Ignorance

RI 2016: Section 3.2

This section is about dealing with the uncertain future, given the many (unknown) unknowns. We will show the implications and responsible ways to deal with them. The following 3 lectures will discuss the following points:

We start with introducing the Precautionary Principle, using climate change as a running example.

Then we discuss some other ways to deal with an uncertain future, such as pilot experiments and monitoring. For this, our case-study will be te use of nanoparticles in sunscreens.

As a bonus, we will have an informative primer to the causes and consequences of climate change. Spread the word :)