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This chapter explores how communication shapes adaptive resilience amid uncertainty and disruption. While resilience studies have traditionally focused on system capacities, communication is often treated as the transmission of information rather than as a constitutive process. Drawing on communication scholarship, the chapter conceptualises resilience as a relational achievement built through sen
Polarisation is increasingly invoked in debates about forest management and environmental politics, yet the concept is often used inconsistently. This commentary provides a framework that can be applied to major scholarly concepts of polarisation, with the goal of helping scholars navigate these concepts and identifying crucial avenues of future research on polarisation in forestry. It distinguish
The COVID-19 pandemic has been overwhelming public health-care systems around the world. With demand exceeding the availability of medical resources in several regions, hospitals have been forced to invoke triage. To ensure that this difficult task proceeds in a fair and organised manner, governments scrambled experts to draft triage guidelines under enormous time pressure. Although there are simi
Good physical experiments conform to the basic methodological standards of experimental design: they are objective, reliable, and valid. But is this also true of thought experiments? Especially problems of personal identity have engendered hypothetical scenarios that are very distant from the actual world. These imagined situations have been conspicuously ineffective at resolving conflicting intui
Lockean views of personal identity maintain that we are essentially persons who persist diachronically by virtue of being psychologically continuous with our former selves. In this article, I present a novel objection to this variant of psychological accounts, which is based on neurophysiological characteristics of the brain. While the mental states that constitute said psychological continuity re
Fifty years have passed since brain death was first proposed as a criterion of death. Its advocates believe that with the destruction of the brain, integrated functioning ceases irreversibly, somatic unity dissolves, and the organism turns into a corpse. In this article, I put forward two objections against this assertion. First, I draw parallels between brain death and other pathological conditio
Machine intelligence already helps medical staff with a number of tasks. Ethical decision-making, however, has not been handed over to computers. In this proof-of-concept study, we show how an algorithm based on Beauchamp and Childress’ prima-facie principles could be employed to advise on a range of moral dilemma situations that occur in medical institutions. We explain why we chose fuzzy cogniti
Many regard conspiracy theorists’ and populists’ struggle against ‘the rulingelite’ as threatening Western liberal democracy. Sometimes this threat isdescribed in apocalyptic images, mirroring the apocalyptic tone in manyconspiracy theories and in much populist rhetoric. In this paper, I propoundconsidering a framework for a critical dialogue about conspiracy theoriesand populism based on the unde
How can justice be socially accomplished when a trial takes place through video links?This video examines remote court proceedings as social and interactional encounters. It explores how justice rituals, shared understanding, mutual focus and courtroom practices may change when participants are not physically present in the same space.
This is a case report of a 54-year-old male, who was admitted twice with transient ischaemic attacks and eventually stroke due to cerebral vasculitis because of an underlying borrelial infection. He did not have any preceding symptoms of neuroborreliosis (Bannwarth syndrome) or erythema migrans. This report underlines the importance of performing a broad neurological evaluation of patients, who pr
