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The Taming Wicked Problems Framework: A plausible biosocial contribution to ‘ending AIDS by 2030’

open access: yesThe Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2018
In 2014, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) published the Gap Report, which states that a new biosocial response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic is required to reinforce the biomedical strategy – Vision 90:90:90 – which is designed to ...
Christopher J. Burman
doaj   +1 more source

Wicked problems: design approaches in complex health-care scenarios [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Against the backdrop of the UK’s dynamically changing population demographic, its National Health Service (NHS) is faced with a number of ‘wicked problems’, i.e. problems that are difficult to resolve and resistant to resolution.
Macdonald, Alastair
core  

Soil Governance: Accessing Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Soil provides the foundation for agricultural and environmental systems, and are subject to a complex governance regime of property rights and secondary impacts from industry and domestic land use.
Howard, Tanya Marjoram, Lawson, Andrew
core   +3 more sources

Education for Problems of Sustainable Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cynefin framework for decision‐making categorizes problem environments into simple (known knowns), complicated (known unknowns), complex (unknown unknowns), and chaotic (unknowables). Simple and complicated problem environments enable best and good solutions, but complex and chaotic problem environments require emergent and novel solutions.
Abbas Ziafati Bafarasat
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Success Factors and a Modus Operandi Framework for Managing Multi‐Actor Research Partnerships for Sustainable Food Systems

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates critical success factors for managing multi‐actor research partnerships for sustainable food systems along their lifecycle. Such partnerships coordinate both internal activities and manage externally funded projects. Drawing on evidence from case studies and workshops with diverse experts, the study identifies critical ...
Mechthild Donner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Co-addressing Wicked Problems through Science Education and Culture: Insights from Ukraine, Estonia, Turkey, and Bangladesh

open access: yesScience Education International
In dealing with wicked problems, such as pandemics, war, economic inflation, refugee influx, and natural disasters such as earthquakes or floods, culture is seen as playing a strong role in determining peoples’ responses.
Tapashi Binte Mahmud Chowdhury   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Epistemology for Agribusiness: Peers, Methods and Engagement in the Agri-Food Bio System [PDF]

open access: yes
The IFAMR is published by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association www.ifama.orgagribusiness, epistemology, research methods, wicked problems, engaged scholarship, research rigor, grounded theory, Agribusiness, Research and ...
Peterson, H. Christopher
core   +1 more source

Large-scale Complex IT Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper explores the issues around the construction of large-scale complex systems which are built as 'systems of systems' and suggests that there are fundamental reasons, derived from the inherent complexity in these systems, why our current software
Antoniou G.   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

Perspectives on Climate Change in Education for Sustainability: Linking Concepts and Skills for a Practical Ecological Transition

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Hard’ natural sciences have extensively been used to provide evidence that climate change is happening and climate action is needed. If the contribution of our economic activities to disturbing our climate systems is now largely accepted, the way in which we design and operationalise ‘climate action’—how we transition to more sustainable ...
Sandrine Simon
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

open access: yesSystems 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
wiley   +1 more source

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