The book provides practical methods for supporting improved participatory processes, including the application of theory and models to aid decision-making.

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

In theory, ratings agencies and mathematical models help investors price the risk they are taking on, even if the securities they are buying are scarcely traded.

ECONOMIST: Risk and the new financial order

In theory, climate models should help tease out which of these indirect effects is playing the biggest role, and also say how much of the decline in ice cover can be assigned to natural variability and how much to feedback loops in which a little warming leads to a lot more.

ECONOMIST: Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean is vanishing rapidly