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Does Context Really Matter for Environmental Policy Implementation? A Systematic Comparison of Implementation Determinants

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental policy addresses wicked problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—issues marked by complexity, conflicting objectives, and stakeholder resistance. After often‐contested policy formulation, implementers face intense pressure to deliver results.
Jonas von Pfister, Nicolai Goritz, Giorgio Varanini, Adrien Ludot, Julian Nal, Maria Proestou, Alexandra Gottinger   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Applying a Complexity Lens to Policy Implementation: How Feedback Loops Help to Understand Systems Change in Integrated Healthcare

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Although a complexity theory lens can help to understand national policy implementation at a local government level, application of this lens often remains at a metaphorical level. We illustrate how complexity concepts, such as adaptation, feedback, emergence and co‐evolution can be used practically in research on policy ...
Andrew Passey, Peter van der Graaf
wiley   +1 more source

A Polycentric Approach for Addressing Wicked Social Problems

Administrative Sciences
Most social problems are “wicked”, meaning that they are highly complex, intractable, open-ended, and multi-dimensional. In wicked learning environments, information is ambiguous, feedback may be slow, or causes and effects are difficult to ascertain ...
Jordan K. Lofthouse, Leah Kral
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Practitioner's Pulse: A Content Analysis Approach for Examining Prevalent Topics in HRD Practitioner Periodicals

Human Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article presents a methodological approach for analyzing Human Resource Development (HRD) practitioner perspectives through a content analysis (CA) of periodicals. While CA has been applied to academic literature, its application to practitioner periodicals represents a methodological reorientation because these sources differ ...
Ellen Scully‐Russ, Sarah M. Ray, Henriette Lundgren   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing With Clients, Not for Them: Human‐Centered Design as a Complement to Clinical Mental Health Counseling

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Clinical mental health concerns often emerge before a client's problem is fully understood or safe to disclose. This best‐practice article presents human‐centered design as a complementary metamodel for clinical reasoning and collaborative treatment planning.
Patrick Akos
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney, Kohei Suzuki, Mehmet Demircioglu, Cristina Stanica, Srinivas Yerramsetti, Aroon P. Manoharan, James L. Perry   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Holds the Strings? Hybrid Governance in Small States

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines how governance in Caribbean small island developing states (SIDS) is reshaped by enduring postcolonial legacies, recurrent crises, and deepening global interdependence. It highlights turbulence, understood as a structural, generative condition of fragmented and recombining authority, as its central analytical contribution ...
Dana‐Marie Ramjit
wiley   +1 more source

The sustainable use of soils: A journey from wicked problems to wicked solutions for soil policy

Soil Security
This 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, A. Basile, E. Bonifacio, G. Corti, G. Ferraro, F.A. Mileti, M. Munafò   +6 more
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The Taming Wicked Problems Framework: A plausible biosocial contribution to ‘ending AIDS by 2030’

The 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

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, Abi Hackett, Kate Pahl, Samyia Ambreen, Khawla Badwan, Elizabeth Curtis, Susannah Gill, Ambika Kapoor, Peter Lawrence, Johan Siebers, Jan White   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source