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International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational StudiesDespite the fact that education is a fundamental human right, the realization of equity in the provision of this right has remained a wicked problem in many countries.
Joyce Nemes
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Freshwater: Towards a Better Understanding of a Wicked Problem
Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, 2020 Water begets intricate and profound linkages between multiple systems. Quantitative limits to freshwater availability for human needs, variabilities in the water cycle and environmental water requirements interact with water source pollution. The arising
Tom Sanya
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Addressing the wicked problem of water resource management: An ecosystem services approach [PDF]
This paper develops a systematic assessment of the sustainability of ecosystem services provided by rivers impacted by water storage projects. Given the conflicting preferences amongst stakeholders and the incomplete, uncertain and contradictory ...
Cullen, Ross +2 more
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conservation performance payments are becoming an increasingly popular instrument to tackle human–wildlife conflicts. In Sweden, Sámi communities practicing reindeer husbandry receive performance payments as compensation for reindeer losses caused by lynxes and wolverines.
Josef Kaiser +3 more
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The Hutton review is unlikely to solve the “wicked” problem of executive pay in the public sector [PDF]
, 2011 In a time of fiscal austerity in government, the pay levels for senior civil servants have come under increasing scrutiny. Sandy Pepper finds that despite the public’s seeming opposition to high pay in the public sector, there are no easy fixes, and that
Pepper, Alexander
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Beyond “#endpjparalysis”, tackling sedentary behaviour in health care [PDF]
, 2019 Reducing sedentary behaviour after hospitalization starts with reducing sedentary behaviour whilst in hospital. Although we have eradicated immobilisation as a therapeutic tool due to its potent detrimental effects, it is still in systemic use within ...
Chastin, Sebastien F.M. +5 more
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How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
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Revisiting the Afterlife: The Inadequacies of Heaven and Hell [PDF]
, 2015 This paper deals with some of the ambiguities that are associated with the intermediate and final states after death. Whereas many in the church have dismissed these concepts as myths of the ancients, this discussion shows how the grounding of such ...
Davis, Christopher P
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Expanding the life framework of values
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Conceptualising and organising the range of value orientations and worldviews underpinning human–nature relationships is useful for understanding different, and sometimes conflicting, perspectives on how nature should be managed and working towards just and equitable policies.
Kyle Jewell +8 more
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