SOC254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Wicked Problem, Tecmar, Precautionary Principle
12 Nov 2018
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Readings: xiang, wei-ning, working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: Wicked problems: class of social system problems which are ill-formulated, where the [available] information is confusing, where there are many clients and decision makers with conflicting values, and where the ramifications in the whole system are thoroughly confusing. [such that] proposed solutions" often turn out to be worse than the symptoms. Acknowledgement of their intractability and ubiquity would aid in finding a solution. Numerous problems in planning, management, and policy-making are wicked unlike problems of engineering and science. Expressions of diverse and conflicting valyes and interests (norton 2012, pp. Due to these characteristics, wicked problems are innately resistant to any tame formulations of scientific analysis and linear protocols. They defy conventional approaches and skills sets of planning, management, and policy-making. Need for a new form of management. Failure of the intellectual root of traditional approaches.
