This book is based on the underlying premise that much can be learned from contemporary thinking about the treatment of complexity, uncertainty, risk-taking and the importance of context in decision making for planning, in fields where these concepts have long been deployed in complex problem-solving. It explores the sophisticated theoretical approaches which have been developed in order to analyse the issues surrounding that complexity. In so doing, the book discusses the overriding influence of complexity theory on the whole field of risk and uncertainty as it impacts on all stages of the project life-cycle. It furthermore examines various decision-support methods, tools and techniques that have been developed and employed by different professions and disciplines with the aim of addressing risk, uncertainty and complexity in planning in a range of different contexts. The book especially explores the parameters of these different contexts and their characteristics in an effort to identify both generic and context-specific lessons that may be of value to planning exercises for Mega Transport Projects.
1. Introduction
2. Key Concepts, Ideas, Issues and Methods
3. Strategic
Planning Thought: lessons from elsewhere Part 2: The Contemporary Treatment
of Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity in Decision-making for Planning in
Selected Discipline
4. Introduction
5. Strategy: Military planning under
conditions of uncertainty complexity and risk
6. Agricultural Pests and
Diseases: Complexity, uncertainty and risk
7. On the Complexity of
Organizational Trust: A multi-level co-evolutionary perspective and
guidelines for future research
8. A New Kind of Competence: On avoiding
mistakes in large organizations
9. Naturalising Knowledge Management Part 3:
The Contemporary Treatment of Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity in
Decision-making in Planning and Project Management
10. Introduction
11.
Complexity and Emergence in City Systems: Implications for urban planning
12.
Strategic Thought and Regional Planning: The importance of context
13.
Managing Risk in a Hypermobile World
14. Great Planning Disasters: What
lessons do they hold?
15. Risk and Uncertainty in Mixed-Use Urban
Regeneration Project
16. The Property Sector Approach to Major Project Risks:
coping with uncertainty and complexity
17. Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity
in Construction and Civil Engineering Projects Part 4: Advancing the Future
of Planning for Mega Transport Projects
18. Introduction
19. Transferable
lessons for Mega Transport Projects - Advancing the future of planning
practices
20. Treatment of Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity in
Decision-making in Various Disciplines and Professions: A synthesis
