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Clusters of water governance problems and their effects on policy delivery
Policy & Society, 2019 Public policy problems are increasingly being characterised as wicked or tame problems, assuming that this classification is also meaningful for attempts to effective problem-solving. But do distinct ‘wicked’ or ‘tame’ problems empirically exist?
Sabrina Kirschke +3 more
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Tobacco Control Is a Wicked Problem: Situating Design Responses in Yogyakarta and Banjarmasin
She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation, 2019 Tobacco use is a persistent social issue worldwide. The World Health Organization has found that policy change and regulation are the clearest paths to resolution.
Alexandra Crosby +3 more
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Congress' Wicked Problem: Seeking Knowledge Inside the Information Tsunami [PDF]
, 2012 The lack of shared expert knowledge capacity in the U.S. Congress has created a critical weakness in our democratic process. Along with bipartisan cooperation, many contemporary and urgent questions before our legislators require nuance, genuine ...
Lorelei Kelly
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and more opportunities for intellectual growth. Our analysis is focused on the UK government's current policy for leadership development in schools in
Mark Innes +2 more
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Athlete Maltreatment as a Wicked Problem and Contested Terrain
Social SciencesAthlete maltreatment in organized sport has attracted considerable attention from governing bodies, stakeholders and the general public. Despite numerous studies and policy proposals from various countries, the problem remains unresolved due to its ...
Haewan Park +2 more
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Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies
Policy & Society, 2019 Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that ‘scientific’ approaches to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and researchers who are addressing complex, and contested, social problems ...
Brian W. Head
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Risk Management in the Arctic Offshore: Wicked Problems Require New Paradigms [PDF]
, 2011 Recent project-management literature and high-profile disasters—the financial crisis, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the Fukushima nuclear accident—illustrate the flaws of traditional risk models for complex projects.
Haley, Sharman, Kaempf, Mandy
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Political economics, collective action and wicked socio-ecological problems: A practice story from the field [PDF]
, 2019 Empowering integrative, sustainable and equitable approaches to wicked socio-ecological problems requires multiple disciplines and ways of knowing. Following calls for greater attention to political economics in this transdisciplinary work, we offer a ...
Adams, Lisa B. +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Recently, the concept ‘queer joy’ has gained interest in LGBT+ scholarship in the West. I use this scholarship as an entry point to explore how school‐attending LGBT+ youth express joy and how joy serves as a form of resistance against gender and sexuality norms in educational settings.
Dennis Francis
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Wicked Solutions for Wicked Problems
Journal of Systems Thinking“Wicked problems” are often thought of as a situation that should not exist or an inescapable consequence of complex systems. This paper argues for a paradigm shift in instead understanding wicked problems as feedback from the system (i.e., the real world), resulting from a misalignment between our mental model of the system and the system itself ...
Natasha Steinhall +7 more
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