The Origin of “Wicked Problems”

Skaburskis, Andrejs

doi:10.1080/14649350802041654

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“…Many of these initiatives are focused on large geographic areas, places to which most people are not connected nor perceive as places they value, except perhaps in an impersonal, abstract way. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, the challenges to coastal communities are highly complex, and the problems are perceived as "wicked" (Skaburskis, 2008) e difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.…”

Section: Confronting "Wicked" Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding and managing marine protected areas through integrating ecosystem based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving from theory to practice

Barr

2013

Ocean & Coastal Management

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Understanding and managing marine protected areas through integrating ecosystem based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving from theory to practice

Barr

2013

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…So how should we prepare the security leaders of mid-sized countries to understand changing factors and actors and prepare for the conflicts of the future? The factors, actors, and conflicts outlined in Table 1 generate wicked problems: there are no technical solutions; there is disagreement about the nature of the problems and the paths to solutions; and every effort to improve the situation generates new problems as actors adapt (Ritchey, 2011;Skaburskis, 2008). Practitioners have to understand the effects of their actions, design and adapt plans to rapidly changing reality, and understand the perspectives and objectives of multiple actors.…”

Section: Security and Defence Quarterlymentioning

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Preparing for future security challenges with practitioner research

Morris¹,

Dececchi²

2019

Security and Defence Quarterly

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Mid-sized countries face a changing security environment, and cannot be certain that the knowledge and practices of the past will serve the future. The officers, professors, and researchers in defence universities are the custodians of military sciences that must adapt to these changing situations. Practitioner research should be modelled and encouraged in defence universities as a vehicle for advancing military sciences to meet new challenges. Previous practitioner research in higher and adult education has highlighted the need for experiential learning in other professions. The authors report on practitioner research by professors at pre-commission military academies to improve cadets' understanding of peace and conflict. Military and police education is often experience-based, but there are few reports of practitioner research on its effectiveness, nor of combining peace and conflict education with out-of-classroom experiences. Legitimation Code Theory provides tools for understanding different teaching approaches. Comparing four cases of practitioner research on experiential learning the authors present models for practitioner research on teaching peace and conflict through out-of-classroom experiences, and conclude with means of evaluating learning experiences by pre-commission cadets, drawing on legitimation code theory. This is increasingly important for military academies striving to meet academic standards, but also to preserve professional values and young officer motivation to confront new challenges.

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“…The notion is fairly old though, launched initially in 1973 in an article on the dilemmas of planning [17][18]. It should be noted that 'wicked' is seen as the opposite of 'tame', not in the connotation of 'evil' (it has also been characterized as intractable respectively tractable problems).…”

Section: Energy As a Wicked Problemmentioning

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The role of consumers in EU energy policy

Kolk

2012

Carbon Management

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While EU energy policy attaches much importance to consumers, it is still far from realizing an energy system that is able to meet user needs and interests, and offer full freedom of choice in an efficient, low-cost, secure and sustainable manner. To shed more light on these issues and provide input to theory and practice, this article examines the assumptions on which EU policy has been based, using insights from different streams of literature. Policy development seems not to have really taken account of more specific behavioral peculiarities of consumers and (energy) product properties. Moreover, roles and interests of different types of consumers are deemed very important for the shape and functioning of liberalized markets, but appear insufficiently understood and embedded. And while competition, transparency and switching are central components, they are more complex than assumed on the basis of models, and that what emerges when actual behavior is considered.

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The Origin of “Wicked Problems”

Cited by 88 publications

References 2 publications

Understanding and managing marine protected areas through integrating ecosystem based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving from theory to practice

Understanding and managing marine protected areas through integrating ecosystem based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving from theory to practice

Preparing for future security challenges with practitioner research

The role of consumers in EU energy policy

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