Thanks for this speech Gideon, an important point and one that I obviously agree with a lot. I thought I’d just throw in a point about policy advocacy. One benefit of the simple/siloed/hazard-centric approach is that that really is how government departments, academic fields and NGO networks are often structured. There’s a nuclear weapons field of academics, advocates and military officials that barely interacts with even the the biological weapons field.
Of course, one thing that ‘complex-model’ thinking can hopefully do is identify new approaches to reduce risk and/or new affected parties and potential coalition partners—such as bringing in DEFRA and thinking about food networks.
As a field, we need to be able to zoom in and out, focus on different levels of analysis to spot possible solutions.
Haydn, please delete this gif ftom your comment. It’s very distracting and unnerving—creepy even. I also think that some forum users with neurological conditions like epilepsy might find it triggers an attack (as e.g. strobe lights can do).
Thanks for this speech Gideon, an important point and one that I obviously agree with a lot. I thought I’d just throw in a point about policy advocacy. One benefit of the simple/siloed/hazard-centric approach is that that really is how government departments, academic fields and NGO networks are often structured. There’s a nuclear weapons field of academics, advocates and military officials that barely interacts with even the the biological weapons field.
Of course, one thing that ‘complex-model’ thinking can hopefully do is identify new approaches to reduce risk and/or new affected parties and potential coalition partners—such as bringing in DEFRA and thinking about food networks.
As a field, we need to be able to zoom in and out, focus on different levels of analysis to spot possible solutions.
Haydn, please delete this gif ftom your comment. It’s very distracting and unnerving—creepy even. I also think that some forum users with neurological conditions like epilepsy might find it triggers an attack (as e.g. strobe lights can do).
Sure—happy to. Deleted.
Thanks :-)