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Leach and her colleagues had shown how experts can reach wildly wrong conclusions if local knowledge and history are not taken into account.
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It promises to question the "assumption that the world is stable, predictable and knowable through a single form of knowledge that assumes one size fits all".
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Leach wants the centre to involve "citizens and decision-makers of all levels".
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"But we live in a world of dynamic change and uncertainty. We want to tackle these challenges head on, combining new theory with practical solutions that make science and technology work for the poor, and create sustainable environments from building on people's own knowledge. Economic growth is to be applauded, but one can't assume its benefits will trickle down to the poor."
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"We urgently need new, interdisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing situations that combine an understanding of social, technological and environmental processes,"
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"It's always been the case that maps have value because they show one subset of data and hide the rest," says David Weinberger, author of Everything Is Miscellaneous, a new book about the value of disorder in the information age. Given the infinite data that can be layered into Google Earth, however, we can now "include everything, then sort and draw the maps on the fly."
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