Managing Severe Uncertainty
管理严重的不确定性
基本信息
- 批准号:AH/J006033/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 77.89万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Research Grant
- 财政年份:2013
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2013 至 无数据
- 项目状态:已结题
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- 关键词:
项目摘要
Many of the important decisions that need to be made by individuals, groups or institutions are made under conditions of considerable uncertainty about the factors upon which these decisions depend. There are two essential dimensions to this uncertainty: (i) scientific or modelling uncertainty (we don't know what the state of the world is and under which dynamical law it will evolve) and (ii) option uncertainty (we do not know what our options are and what would happen if we were to exercise one or another of them. Crucially, these dimensions interact: modelling uncertainty contributes to option uncertainty, for instance. Climate change policy-making exemplifies both forms of uncertainty. On the side of scientific uncertainty, we face the problem that climate models are imperfect and non-linear, which undermines standard forecasting procedures. In particular, climate models are known to be strongly imperfect in the sense that they do not even approximately mirror all the real-world target systems. Recent results suggest that this leads to the breakdown of probabilistic forecasts, thus depriving us of the most powerful and widely used tool for making predictions. On the side of option uncertainty, we know little about the potential effects (and side-effects) of some of the proposed measures for mitigation and adaption - carbon capture and storage, creating clouds from seawater, placing reflectors in the outer atmosphere, and so on - or what other mechanisms or technologies might be developed. But despite a recent resurgence of interest in rational decision making in situations in which agents lack full probabilistic information (commonly termed situations of ambiguity), theoretical approaches remain rather undeveloped. Decision theorists' discussions of the first kind of uncertainty are even more embryonic, as does discussion of how these forms of uncertainty are related to one anotherTaking climate science and policy as our main case study, we will look at two different families of questions. 1. What are the reasons for scientific uncertainty regarding climate change? This involves questions such as: Why and how do probabilistic forecasts break down? What model imperfections 'destroy' predictive power? How might we detect these imperfections? How can models be improved? 2. How should one make policy decisions under uncertainty? This involves questions such as: How can we make decisions when we lack determinate probabilistic predictions for crucial variables, such as local precipitation at future dates, upon which our decisions depend (this concerns scientific uncertainty)? How should we think about our possible policy options when we don't know which of them will be feasible (this concerns option uncertainty)? This three-year project, bringing together academics at the LSE with expertise in scientific modelling, decision-making and climate policy, will develop answers to these questions in a way that reflects their interdependence. The kind of information and level of accuracy required in order to make policy decisions should, for instance, inform strategies for dealing with scientific uncertainty. Correspondingly, policy decisions should be made in a way that recognises scientific uncertainty and maximises their robustness in the face of different possible resolutions of the uncertainty.
许多需要由个人、团体或机构作出的重要决定都是在这些决定所依赖的因素存在相当大的不确定性的情况下作出的。这种不确定性有两个基本维度:(I)科学或建模的不确定性(我们不知道世界的状态是什么,它将根据哪种动力学规律演变)和(Ii)期权的不确定性(我们不知道我们的期权是什么,以及如果我们行使其中一个期权会发生什么。至关重要的是,这些维度是相互作用的:例如,建模不确定性导致了期权的不确定性。气候变化政策的制定体现了这两种形式的不确定性。在科学不确定性方面,我们面临着气候模型不完善和非线性的问题,这破坏了标准的预测程序。特别是,众所周知,气候模型在某种意义上是非常不完美的,因为它们甚至不能大致反映所有现实世界的目标系统。最近的结果表明,这导致了概率预测的崩溃,从而剥夺了我们做出预测的最强大和最广泛使用的工具。在备选方案的不确定性方面,我们对一些拟议的缓解和适应措施的潜在影响(和副作用)知之甚少--碳捕获和储存、利用海水制造云、在外层大气中放置反射器等等--或者可能开发出哪些其他机制或技术。但是,尽管最近在代理人缺乏完全概率信息的情况下(通常称为模糊情况)对理性决策的兴趣重新抬头,理论方法仍然相当不发达。决策理论家对第一种不确定性的讨论甚至还处于萌芽阶段,关于这些形式的不确定性如何相互联系的讨论也处于萌芽阶段。以气候科学和政策为主要案例,我们将研究两类不同的问题。1.关于气候变化的科学不确定性的原因是什么?这涉及到这样的问题:概率预测为什么以及如何崩溃?什么样的模型缺陷会“摧毁”预测能力?我们如何才能发现这些不完美之处?如何改进模型?2.如何在不确定的情况下做出政策决策?这涉及这样的问题:当我们缺乏对关键变量的确定的概率预测时,我们如何做出决策,例如我们决策所依赖的未来日期的当地降雨量(这涉及到科学上的不确定性)?当我们不知道哪些可能的政策选择是可行的(这涉及到选择的不确定性)时,我们应该如何思考我们可能的政策选择?这个为期三年的项目汇集了伦敦政治经济学院拥有科学建模、决策和气候政策专业知识的学者,将以一种反映他们相互依存的方式为这些问题找到答案。例如,作出决策所需的信息种类和准确度水平应该为处理科学不确定性的战略提供依据。相应地,政策决策应该以一种承认科学不确定性的方式做出,并在面对不同可能的不确定性解决方案时最大限度地增强其稳健性。
项目成果
期刊论文数量(10)
专著数量(0)
科研奖励数量(0)
会议论文数量(0)
专利数量(0)
Counterfactual Desirability.
反事实的可取性。
- DOI:10.1093/bjps/axv023
- 发表时间:2017-06
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Bradley R;Stefánsson HO
- 通讯作者:Stefánsson HO
Climate Change Assessments: Confidence, Probability, and Decision
气候变化评估:信心、概率和决策
- DOI:10.1086/692145
- 发表时间:2022
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.7
- 作者:Bradley R
- 通讯作者:Bradley R
Belief revision generalized: A joint characterization of Bayes' and Jeffrey's rules
广义的信念修正:贝叶斯规则和杰弗里规则的联合表征
- DOI:10.1016/j.jet.2015.11.006
- 发表时间:2016
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.6
- 作者:Dietrich F
- 通讯作者:Dietrich F
SHOULD SUBJECTIVE PROBABILITIES BE SHARP?
主观概率应该是尖锐的吗?
- DOI:10.1017/epi.2014.8
- 发表时间:2014
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:Bradley S
- 通讯作者:Bradley S
ELLSBERG'S PARADOX AND THE VALUE OF CHANCES
艾尔斯伯格悖论和机会的价值
- DOI:10.1017/s0266267115000358
- 发表时间:2015
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.2
- 作者:Bradley R
- 通讯作者:Bradley R
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Richard Bradley其他文献
The kinematics of belief and desire
信念和欲望的运动学
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2007 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.5
- 作者:
Richard Bradley - 通讯作者:
Richard Bradley
Proposition-valued random variables as information
作为信息的命题值随机变量
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2010 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:1.5
- 作者:
Richard Bradley - 通讯作者:
Richard Bradley
Decision Theory: A Formal Philosophical Introduction
决策理论:正式的哲学导论
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2014 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Richard Bradley - 通讯作者:
Richard Bradley
Making Confident Decisions with Model Ensembles
使用模型集成做出自信的决策
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2020 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
J. Roussos;Richard Bradley;Roman Frigg - 通讯作者:
Roman Frigg
Desire, Expectation and Invariance
欲望、期望和不变性
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2016 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Richard Bradley;H. Orri Stefánsson - 通讯作者:
H. Orri Stefánsson
Richard Bradley的其他文献
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Collaborative Research: Highly Ordered Nanoscale Patterns Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces: Theory and Experiment
合作研究:离子轰击固体表面产生的高度有序的纳米级图案:理论与实验
- 批准号:
2116753 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Self-Assembled Nanoscale Patterns Produced by Ion Bombardment of Solid Surfaces
通过离子轰击固体表面产生的自组装纳米级图案
- 批准号:
1305449 - 财政年份:2013
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Collaborative Research: Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER)
合作研究:用于探测再电离时代的精密阵列(论文)
- 批准号:
1125558 - 财政年份:2011
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: PAPER: Precision Array to Probe the Epoch on Reionization
合作研究:论文:精密阵列探测再电离时代
- 批准号:
0804523 - 财政年份:2008
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Continuing Grant
Bronze Age metalwork hoards in the landscape of lowland Britain: a pilot study
英国低地景观中的青铜时代金属制品宝库:一项试点研究
- 批准号:
AH/E008712/1 - 财政年份:2007
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Research Grant
Collaborative Proposal for PAPER -- Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization
PAPER合作提案——精密阵列探测再电离时代
- 批准号:
0607759 - 财政年份:2006
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Strong Mixing Conditions for Random Sequences
随机序列的强混合条件
- 批准号:
9703712 - 财政年份:1997
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$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
Mathematical Sciences: Strong Mixing Conditions for Random Sequences and Random Fields
数学科学:随机序列和随机场的强混合条件
- 批准号:
9500307 - 财政年份:1995
- 资助金额:
$ 77.89万 - 项目类别:
Standard Grant
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