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• Abstract
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• Declaration
  
• 1. Introduction
  Adapting current systems
  New systems of valuation
  
• 2. Decision making
  Why do we need decision making
  Conflicts of interest
  Uncertainty
  Incomplete Knowledge: external uncertainty
  Contextuality: Internal uncertainty
  
• 3. Current institutional structures
  Firm decision making
  Market structure
  Government decision making
  
• 4. Accounting for decision making
  Whant is accounting?
  The centralising effects of accounting
  Accountability
  Types of accounting system
  
• 5. Environmental decision making
  Problems of conflict: sources of value
  External uncertainty: measurements
  Internal uncertainty: monopolising the environment
  responsibility
  
• 6. New institutions
  Rationality
  Accountablity and internal uncertainty
  New institutions
  
• 7. Natural responses to uncertainty
  How the immune system generates diversity of response
  
• 8. Modelling responses to uncertainty
  
• Conclusion
  
• Appendix
  
• Bibliography