Narratives of Environmental Risk: Fate, Luck and Fortune

拟议中的网络汇集了来自不同学科的学者（艺术、人文、社会和自然科学;见学术受益人），创意作家，商业战略家和政策制定者调查命运，运气和财富概念的存在和作用（以下简称森林论坛）在讨论环境风险时，对各种方式有了细致入微的理解，在不同的历史和地理背景下，森林融资的概念在风险的认识和表达以及应对风险方面发挥了作用，并将继续发挥作用。 在现代后启蒙时代的西方文化中，风险往往被量化。将FLF与风险并列似乎不协调：有人认为，风险的概念是现代的区别;风险管理已成为专业知识、专业教育和培训的竞技场。然而，人们现在普遍认为，人们对有关风险的客观信息反应较少，而更多地注意到他们自己对危险的看法，这种看法是由他们特定文化的隐含假设形成的，包括森林论坛的作用;然而，这些概念及其在决定决策过程中发挥的作用很少得到明确和处理。 该网络的目的是系统地概述森林和森林论坛的概念在与环境风险有关的历史、当代和未来叙事中的表达方式，例如，从古希腊对女神tuche（“机会”）的奉献到当代气候变化小说。这样的探索不仅会带来来自其他文化的见解，而且还提供了对当代环境风险叙事的新视角，并有可能重新考虑当前应对环境风险的方法。 计划举办三个讲习班，讨论以下主题：-将森林论坛的作用历史化，向研究环境风险的学者澄清这些想法的发展及其在这方面的用途;-制定新的政策办法，探讨如何更透彻地了解森林论坛在环境风险叙述中的作用，以便在现行政策中制定新的对策;- 普及FLF，探索FLF概念的实现方式（或抽象权力的人格化）在历史和当前的话语中仍然是强大的（视觉，书面和口头）关注环境风险，以及它们如何塑造对机构的看法。该项目旨在提供见解，这将超越对环境风险的通常假设，获得新的视角，开发新的问题和数据方法，使用新的证据和方法。这将通过汇集艺术和人文，科学和社会科学的不同学科的启发式工具来实现。该网络还将包括来自广大公众和主要利益攸关方的参与者，包括在科学-政策界面、商业以及创意艺术领域工作的人员。除了帮助发展一个共同的竞技场研究外，该网络还旨在促进有关当代社会中命运、运气和财富的性质和作用以及对环境风险的态度的相关公共和政策对话。

The proposed network brings together scholars from across different disciplines (arts, humanities, social and physical sciences; see Academic Beneficiaries), creative writers, business strategists and policy makers to investigate the presence and role of concepts of fate, luck and fortune (hereafter FLF) in discussions of environmental risks, to develop a nuanced understanding of the variety of ways in which, in different historical and geographical contexts, concepts of FLF have played a role or roles in perceptions and expressions of risk, and responses to it, and continue to do so. In modern post-enlightenment western culture, risk tends to be described in terms of quantification. Setting FLF side-by-side with risk may seem incongruous: it has been argued that the idea of risk is what differentiates the modern era; risk management has become an arena of expertise, and specialised education and training. However, it is now widely accepted that people respond less to objective information about risks and take more notice of their own perceptions of danger, shaped by the implicit assumptions of their particular culture, including the role of FLF; nevertheless, these conceptions and the role that they play in shaping decision-making are rarely if ever made explicit and addressed. This network aims to provide a systematic overview of the ways in which concepts of FLF have been, and continue to be expressed in historical, contemporary and futuristic narratives concerned with environmental risk, for example, from ancient Greek dedications to the goddess tuche ('Chance'), to contemporary climate change fiction. Such an exploration will not only bring insights from other cultures, but also provide new perspectives on contemporary narratives of environmental risk-with the potential to reconsider current approaches to responses to environmental risk. There are three planned workshops addressing the following themes: - Historicising the role of FLF, providing scholars who study environmental risks with clarification of the development of these ideas and their use in this context;- Developing new policy approaches, exploring how a more thorough understanding of the role of FLF in narratives of environmental risk may be used to develop new responses in current policy; - The popularisation of FLF, exploring the ways in which conceptions of FLF (or personifications of abstract powers) remain powerful in historical and current discourses (visual, written and oral) concerned with environmental risks, and how they shape perceptions of agency.The project aims to provide insights that that will develop beyond the usual assumptions about environmental risks, gaining new perspectives, developing new questions and approaches to data, working with new evidence and methodologies. This will be achieved by bringing together the heuristic tools of different disciplines across the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences. The network will also include participants from a broad range of publics and key stakeholders, including those working at the science - policy interface, in business, but also in the creative arts. As well as helping to develop a shared arena of research, the network aims to contribute to relevant public and policy conversations concerning the nature and role of fate luck and fortune in contemporary society, and in attitudes to environmental risks.