World has always been a complex and adaptive system marked by diversified evolutionary paths.
Evolution is a natural process, producing on the basis of initial conditions, given present and future possibilities. Determined by mechanisms related to diversification, it allows variations of different paths undertaken by the same process. The complex adaptive systems, as they are understood in the technological development age, are in continuous expansion and being integrated in critical infrastructures systems, where robustness and resilience are fundamental features to observe.
In order to control phenomena within structures and self-ruling systems and provide effective interventions even in an unpredictable and apparently random evolutionary context, a deterministic view of natural phenomena and social events must be taken. Then through risk analysis techniques to implement prevention measures, mitigation responses, or accepting the risk towards stochasticity that may disturb the normal functioning of the system itself, they act in a misaligned and exhibiting often contrasting way with social evolutionary rules which historically bases its scientific advances on paradigm shifts or points of major events involving mankind.
Understanding the evolution of risks, preventing disturbing events, means knowing the non-deterministic part of the dynamics of evolutionary systems, thus ensuring the robustness of the system, however assuring a way to deactivate the natural evolution of the CAS system no longer based on socio-cultural values but on technological types. These values in a way around, should be rewarded for researching and discovering that kind of science, still unknown, that will help mankind towards a more natural, sustainable development aligned with terrestrial resources. The chasing of the dream of preventing the unpredictable would thus lead to a deterministic social system, dictated by static dynamics incapable of evolving if not in the same logic of the system itself. The major risk as evidenced by these premises and by the change in relation to the priorities that society is currently seeking, is presented de facto as an act that would determine an elitist progression to terrestrial resources accessibility. These aspects are highlighted by studies in the field of water management, crop management, and agriculture management.