A New Cosmology of Risks and Crises: Time for a Radical Shift in Paradigm and Practice

Patrick Lagadec ()

Working Papers from HAL

Abstract: Crises in the 21st century differ—structurally— from those we had to deal with in the last century. Those were traditionally defined and handled as a combination of "threat, urgency and uncertainty". Today, they are better described in terms of a destruction of vital references and a dynamic of systemic implosions. If crises were a type of severe, dynamic accident , they are becoming the essential mode of life of our hypercomplex systems. These transboundary crises mark a watershed between mindsets and tools of the past, and the new strategic landscape which we are now in. The intellectual and governance challenges are extreme. But looking backwards is not an option. It is vital to forge new routes into Terrae Incognitae. The goal of this article is to help build a) a renewed understanding of the emerging challenges we face; b) a better strategic response to these systemic dislocations which are now the name of the game.

Date: 2009-03-24
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-00370652
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-00370652/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: A New Cosmology of Risks and Crises: Time for a Radical Shift in Paradigm and Practice (2009)
Working Paper: A new cosmology of risks and crises time for a radical shift in paradigm and practice (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-00370652

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().