Cluster 2 Theme: Technology Policy, Regulation and Precaution - Technology regulation has long been an area of governance where the

An important response to these richer understandings of ´uncertainty´ and its political dynamics has been the emergence of precautionary thinking, in the form of a range of novel, but often politically and practically challenging, approaches to knowledge production and decision-making. [...] This session takes stock of some of these developments, and explores some of the challenges involved in experimentation with more open, plural and ambitious forms of knowledge production, decision-making and intervention in this area of policy. [...] This blurring of the worlds of crisis and risk present distinct challenges for the worlds of research and practice. [...] The paper concludes by examining proto-examples from the UK and the Netherlands of what this might look like at the level of the municipality. [...] There is increasing acknowledgement by urban stakeholders of the indelibly provisional and dynamic character of urban change and the subsequent embrace of adaptive styles of governance that can respond to the emergent properties of urban systems.