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Following the success of the CwU'2004 the main aim of the workshop is to provide researchers and practitioners from different areas with an interdisciplinary forum for discussing various ways of dealing with uncertainties in various areas, including Environmental and Social Sciences, Economics, Policy-Making, Management, and Engineering. Presentations shall be prepared for an interdisciplinary audience, and shall address: open problems, limitations of known approaches, novel methods and techniques, or lessons from applications of various approaches. Ongoing global changes give rise to fundamentally new scientific problems which require new concepts and tools. A key issue concerns a vast variety of practically irreducible uncertainties, which challenge our traditional models and require new concepts and analytical tools. This uncertainty critically dominates, e.g., the climate change debates. In short, the dilemma is concerned with enormous costs vs massive uncertainties of potentially extreme impacts.