The argumentative turn in policy analysis : reasoning about uncertainty / Sven Ove Hansson, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn.
Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- editor.; Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude, 1953- editor.
2016
H97
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Title The argumentative turn in policy analysis : reasoning about uncertainty / Sven Ove Hansson, Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn.
ISBN 9783319305493 (electronic book)
3319305492 (electronic book)
9783319305479
Published [Cham] : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Call Number H97
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.6
Summary This book describes argumentative tools and strategies that can be used to guide policy decisions under conditions of great uncertainty. Contributing authors explore methods from philosophical analysis and in particular argumentation analysis, showing how it can be used to systematize discussions about policy issues involving great uncertainty. The first part of the work explores how to deal in a systematic way with decision-making when there may be plural perspectives on the decision problem, along with unknown consequences of what we do. Readers will see how argumentation tools can be used for prioritizing among uncertain dangers, for determining how decisions should be framed, for choosing a suitable time frame for a decision, and for systematically choosing among different decision options. Case studies are presented in the second part of the book, showing argumentation in practice in the areas of climate geoengineering, water governance, synthetic biology, nuclear waste, and financial markets. In one example, argumentation analysis is applied to proposals to solve the climate problem with various technological manipulations of the natural climate system, such as massive dispersion of reflective aerosols into the stratosphere. Even after a thorough investigation of such a proposal, doubt remains as to whether all the potential risks have been identified. In such discussions, conventional risk analysis does not have much to contribute since it presupposes that the risks have been identified, whereas the argumentative approach to uncertainty management can be used to systematize discussions.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 29, 2016)
Added Author Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951- editor.
Hirsch Hadorn, Gertrude, 1953- editor.
Series Logic, argumentation & reasoning ; 10.
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Introduction
Summary; Sven Ove Hansson and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn
The argumentative turn; Sven Ove Hansson and Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn
Part I. Argumentative strategies
Choosing among the uncertainties; Sven Ove Hansson
Accounting for possibilities; Gregor Betz
Framing; Till Grüne-Yanoff
Timing strategies; Gertrude Hirsch Hadorn
Setting and revising goals; Karin Edvardsson Björnberg
Value uncertainty; Niklas Möller
Ethical orientations for policy decisions; Rafaela Hillerbrand, Pieter van Gelder, and Genserik Reniers
Participation as a means to better argumentation; Jeroen van den Hoven, Alessandra Palmigiano, and Francis M Brazier
Argumentative roads to agreement; Georg Brun and Gregor Betz
Part II Argumentation in practice
Climate geoengineering; Kevin Elliott
Water governance; Neelke Doorn
Synthetic biology; Armin Grunwald
Nuclear waste; Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Financial markets; Michael Schefczyk.

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