And here's a summary of a 2011 workshop at Yale (which I participated in): «Intervening to Constrain our Future Selves: Strategic Policy Interventions to Address the Super
Wicked Problem of Climate Change.»]
Not exact matches
«The finding that
climate change increases the seasonal windows
of opportunities
of high fire danger in the geographic areas where these fires become disasters suggests that
climate change is a threat multiplier to the
wicked fire
problem that these communities face today,» said John Abatzoglou, a co-author
of the study and associate professor at the University
of Idaho.
A full systems analysis
of this, the ultimate
wicked problem, is what we should be doing, instead
of focusing solely on
climate change.
Robert J. Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University, has for years been been a valuable guide for me to the large, and largely under - appreciated, body
of behavioral research illuminating why it's so hard to gain traction on the super
wicked problem of human - driven
climate change.
-- Playing it forward: Path dependency, progressive incrementalism, and the «Super
Wicked»
problem of global
climate change, Kelly Levin, Benjamin Cashore, Steven Bernstein and Graeme Auld
however, think that
wicked problems are really present, when we take the next step
of discussing, what to do to mitigate the consequences
of the
climate change.
To me the basic
problem of climate change itself is not
wicked.
How much does it effect the big scientific programs / unifying theories /
wicked problems like
climate change which includes so many subjective judgements and imprecise use
of language (and complexity)?
By breaking down the
wicked nature
of climate change into smaller, interconnected
problems, achieving progress on these smaller challenges becomes more likely.
In part, that's because
climate change is a unique and difficult
problem — «
wicked,» as people never tire
of calling it.
The result
of this simplified framing
of a
wicked problem is that we lack the kinds
of information to more broadly understand
climate change and societal vulnerability.
This approach is not effective to deal with what government faces in the context
of «
wicked»
problems and complex adaptive social systems (think homelessness, hunger, poverty,
climate change, family justice).