摘要:Plans to solve complex environmental problems should always consider the role of surprise.Nevertheless, there is a tendency to emphasize known computable aspects of a problem while neglectingaspects that are unknown and failing to ask questions about them. The tendency to ignore the noncomputablecan be countered by considering a wide range of perspectives, encouraging transparency with regard toconflicting viewpoints, stimulating a diversity of models, and managing for the emergence of new synthesesthat reorganize fragmentary knowledge