Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development
这篇评论文章探讨了在气候变化等充满不确定性的时代，发展应如何从控制转向灵活适应，对政策制定者和研究者有启发。
Uncertainty – where we don’t know what the future will hold – dominates our world. Climate change, natural disasters, pandemics and financial systems are characterised by deep uncertainties, even ignorance. Yet development efforts try to control, manage, plan and order the world in ways that often backfire. In an age of uncertainty, we need to ask whether development should be a project of control, often drawing on formal expertise and creating order through top-down intervention, or one of flexible, responsive, adaptive caring This Insights essay will explore the implications of taking uncertainty seriously, examining the implications for how we approach perhaps the biggest development challenge of all: adapting to climate change.