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28. The Neglected Pillar of Science: Risk and Uncertainty Analysis

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Abstract

Science, in general, is built on two pillars: on the one hand, confidence, obtained through research and development, analysis, argumentation, testing, data and information, and on the other humbleness, acknowledging that the knowledge—the justified beliefs—generated can be more or less strong and even erroneous. The main thesis of the present conceptual work is that the latter pillar—humbleness—has not been given the scientific attention it deserves. This pillar is founded on risk and uncertainty analysis, but the fields of this type of analysis are weak, lacking authority. The volume of research on risk and uncertainty analysis is small and the quality of current approaches and methods is not satisfactory. A strengthening of the fields of risk and uncertainty analysis is urgently and strongly needed. Several suggestions for how to meet these challenges are presented, including measures to stimulate further research on the fundamentals of these fields—and crossing established study borders, and initiatives to be taken by relevant societies to increase the awareness of the issue and deriving suitable strategies for how to develop risk and uncertainty analysis as a distinct science.

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Metadaten
Titel
The Neglected Pillar of Science: Risk and Uncertainty Analysis
verfasst von
Terje Aven
Copyright-Jahr
2021
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55732-4_28

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