PPD 240g Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Global Warming, Stopping Time, Muddling Through
8 Sep 2016
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Wicked problems on a global scale: wicked problems, analysts have long dealt with problems. Easy problems (infrastructure, shelter, diseases, clean water, etc. ) were addressed. Then (1973), we are dealing with claims of equity, distributional problems, open systems, interconnectivity of problems. Now (2014), we have globalized problems and interconnected/interdependent systems (e. g. finance, communication, government, natural: defining and locating problems, defining problems. Knowing what distinguishes an observed condition from a desired condition : locating problems. Knowing where in the complex casual networks the problem really lies : equality intractable identifying the actions that narrow gap between what-is and what-should-be , rittel and webber, social problems are wicked. Tricky, with little ability to test solutions. Have contending causal theories and multiple causes. No stopping rule (e. g. 100 year flood protection vs. protection of children) There"s no one solution that"ll keep it from happening, you have to keep up with the solutions: wickedness relates to decision strategies (look at chart, factors.
