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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Displacing people to make way for development projects is contentious. Empirical research demonstrates that neither human rights guidelines nor multilateral lenders' standards guarantee positive, sustainable outcomes for displaced people. With multiple new displacing projects proposed globally, including for renewable energy, we propose a new ...
Eddie Smyth +2 more
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Epistemological Implications of a System—Theoretical Understanding for Sustainability Models
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the sense of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), global efforts to create a sustainable society will not be sufficiently successful under the current geopolitical and socio‐economic trends. For this reason, recent sustainability research has increasingly focused on systemic coherence, the subject of cognition, and psychological and ...
Stefan Stumm
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From Systems Metaphors to Project Manager Intelligence: Fostering Stakeholder Relationships
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper combines systems metaphors with Gardner's multiple intelligences theory to develop a comprehensive model for managing stakeholder relationships. By incorporating various systemic perspectives—machine, organism, cultural/political, societal/environmental and interrelationships—the model provides a holistic framework that positions ...
Alicia Gilchrist, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
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An Exploratory Study of Online Information Regarding Colony Collapse Disorder [PDF]
, 2012 The cause or causes of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) are uncertain. CCD defines specific characteristics of the nationwide deaths of honey bee colonies in the last decade.
Boehm, Meredith K.
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper explores activity systems modelling (ASM) as a complex systemic approach to fostering learning partnerships between community initiatives and municipal governments. It highlights the increasing role of community‐led initiatives in cocreating public value and the challenges of collaboration due to differing perspectives on governance,
Peter Marks, Wouter Spekkink
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The sustainable use of soils: A journey from wicked problems to wicked solutions for soil policy
Soil SecurityThis is the first of two connected papers challenging the wicked nature of soils and proposing a soil legislation based on wicked solutions towards soil sustainable use.
F. Terribile +6 more
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Antimicrobial resistance as a super wicked problem: how do we engage the public to be part of the solution. [PDF]
Infect Prev Pract, 2023 Rickard H +5 more
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Energy Efficiency as a Wicked Problem
Sustainability, 2019 Together with increased shares of renewable energy supply, improved energy efficiency is the foremost means of mitigating climate change. However, the energy efficiency potential is far from being realized, which is commonly explained by the existence of
P. Thollander, J. Palm, J. Hedbrant
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Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan +4 more
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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