Uncertainty and variability are inevitable in studying the environmental impacts
of society’s use of resources. This was the subject of a Special Session “Moving
beyond averages: uncertainty and variability analysis in industrial ecology”,
which I co-chaired together with
Dr Jonathan
Cullen,
Leo
Paoli and
Dr David
Laner,
at the
International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
conference in Chicago in June 2017. This post
summarises the session, and collects the results of the discussion with the
session participants.