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Wicked problems and a ‘wicked’ solution [PDF]
Globalization and Health, 2018 Background ‘Wicked’ is the term used to describe some of the most challenging and complex issues of our time, many of which threaten human health. Climate change, biodiversity loss, persisting poverty, the advancing obesity epidemic, and food insecurity ...
Helen L. Walls
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Are wicked problems really so wicked? Perceptions of policy problems
Policy & Society, 2019 The concept of wicked problems has become widely used in policy analysis. The popularity of the concept has led to its overuse, and has produced significant conceptual stretching. This paper investigates the extent to which this stretching has led to the
B. Guy Peters, Matthew Tarpey
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Using the adaptive action method to tackle wicked problems in rural faculty development [PDF]
BMC Medical EducationMedical educators face wicked (complex) problems. Few faculty development (FD) programs exist specifically designed for rural physicians. Memorial University created the 6for6 program, a longitudinal FD program in foundational research skills for rural ...
Cheri Bethune +4 more
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Tackling wicked problems in infection prevention and control: a guideline for co-creation with stakeholders [PDF]
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2016 Background Infection prevention and control can be seen as a wicked public health problem as there is no consensus regarding problem definition and solution, multiple stakeholders with different needs and values are involved, and there is no clear end ...
Anne F. G. van Woezik +4 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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Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice
Policy & Society, 2019 The concept of ‘wicked problems’ is a major current in the fields of policy analysis and planning. However, the basis of the concept has been insufficiently examined. This re-examination of its conceptual basis explains the origins of the limitations and
Nick Turnbull, Robert Hoppe
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A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems
Policy & Society, 2019 The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which additional efforts might increase the chances of finding better responses ...
Catrien J.A.M. Termeer, Art Dewulf
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EQA, 2023 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has been experiencing a rapid urban growth in the recent decades with intense demand on housing. Government policies are trying to revise strategies to supply more housing units in order to meet the exerting pressure of ...
Ayad Almaimani, Khan Rahaman
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WICKED PROBLEMS AND THE DESIGN THINKING METHOD AS A TOOL TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. THE CASE ALIEN PROJECT [PDF]
Eastern European Journal of Regional Studies, 2023 Today's global challenges are characterized by increasing complexity. This makes it possible to call these challenges so-called wicked problems, which are difficult to define clearly, have no single solution and require the involvement of multiple ...
Magdalena PROCZEK, Marta GARBARCZYK
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FORMakademisk, 2020 Design methods need to reconsider ways to avoid othering messiness (or what appears to be contradictory or nonsensical) within wicked problem situations, particularly crisis sites.
Dulmini Perera
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