Are Dutch water management authorities able to make sense of the 'unknown unkrowns' of climate change?

Governmental authorities increasingly face the challenge of dealing with risks due to unpredictable potentially damaging events. Whereas the so called known unknowns are familiar but unpredictable as to when and where they will happen, the unknown unknowns are completely unforeseen until they happen. An example is climate change, that potentially brings about continuous and unpredictable changes in weather patterns. This paper examines the question as to what extent governmental actors are able to deal with these risks, which are nearly impossible to predict and thus hard to prepare for. We pr... Mehr ...