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cord-314275-twjaq5do	Diwekar, U.	A perspective on the role of uncertainty in sustainability science and engineering	2020-09-09		.txt	text/plain	11288	581	42	Some examples of uncertainties in sustainability include definition and quantification of various objectives, impact assessment methods and models, forecasting future, and unexpected events. Deep uncertainties are related to decreasing confidence in our ability to anticipate correctly future technological, economic, and social developments, future changes in the system we are trying to improve, or the multiplicity and time-varying preferences of stakeholders regarding the system's outcomes, or handling low probability but high impact events (black swans (Taleb 2010) ) like a natural disaster, a pandemic, a financial crisis, a terrorist attack, or truly novel events for which there is no historical experience. In the highly complex ecological-economic systems that humans want to sustain, it is often impossible to make objective assessments of the probabilities of different outcomes, and therefore impossible to model expected values. Data and models are needed at multiple scales to account for the contribution of ecosystem goods and services in environmental sustainability assessments and engineering design.	./cache/cord-314275-twjaq5do.txt	./txt/cord-314275-twjaq5do.txt