Living With the Wicked Problem of Climate Change

Peters, Karl E.

doi:10.1111/zygo.12400

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“…Threats and consequences of this phenomenon manifest themselves in various forms such as heatwaves, storms, and floods [10][11][12][13][14]. Proper planning and policymaking are particularly considerableto deal with these complex and wicked problems [15][16][17][18]. Flooding is a natural disaster that has caused great damage in Iran and its megacities in recent years [19,20], with 157 cases of flooding recorded in Tehran in five decades , with an increasing trend [21].…”

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A Framework for Urban Flood Resilience Assessment with Emphasis on Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions: A Qualitative Study

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In recent years, the effects of climate change have become more noticeable in Iran, especially in big cities. In particular, climate-related flood risk is increasingly recognized as a potential threat in the capital city of Tehran. Accordingly, the present study aimed to provide a framework/assessment tool to measure Tehran’s resilience to flood risks. To this end, 21 professionals from different disciplines were selected through a purposive sampling procedure and were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The analysis procedure resulted in the identification of 3 themes, 15 categories, 40 subcategories, and 235 codes. The themes were social, economic, and organizational; The identified categories were culture and education (since culture is something to be learned through formal and informal education this component has two features: culture and education), participation, trust, attitude, solidarity, resources, empowerment, flexibility, credit, supervision, intercommunication, rules, specialization, and research. Validation of the indicators and their usability based on the opinions of local experts was used to calibrate the assessment tool and ensure its context-sensitivity. The results of this research can help planners and policymakers to increase their awareness of flood resilience. The approach taken in this research may also be useful for developing flood resilience assessment tools in other Iranian cities as well as in other cities of the Global South with similar conditions.

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A Framework for Urban Flood Resilience Assessment with Emphasis on Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions: A Qualitative Study

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“…When talking about sustainability and climate change, the term "wicked problem" is commonly used (e.g. Peters 2018). Considering the discourse of digitization, this is, however, not the case.…”

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Sustainability in a Digital Age as a Trigger for Organizational Development in Education

Grünberger

Szucsich

2021

Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations

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As we all know the terms sustainability and digitization are often used these days to describe current social challenges from a global perspective. In order to face these challenges, it is clear that we need an efficient and future-oriented education system. The question arises if the challenges in relation to climate change and digitization change these (learning) organizations as well? And, if yes, in what way? As this chapter points out, sustainability can be regarded as a trigger for an extensive organizational development focusing on ecological, economic (e.g. regarding learning outcomes and assessment) and social aspects. As a consequence, the social structure of the various actors in educational organizations as well as the way in which they interact with each other may/will change as well. In addition to that, climate change and digitization are both so-called wicked problems as there is neither a single solution nor a stringent strategy on how to cope with them.

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“…En raekke forskere karakteriserer klimakrisen som et wicked problem (fx Levin, Cashore, Bernstein, & Auld, 2012;Peters, 2018;Sun & Yang, 2016) . Udtrykket er Rittel og Webbers (1973), og det beskriver et samfundsmaessigt problem, der står i modsaetning til et problem med simple og lineaere strukturer og løsninger, kaldet tame problems.…”

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Klimakrisen som et wicked problem – en kritik af klimainterventioner

Meistrup¹,

Klitmøller²

2020

P&L

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Klimakrisen kræver handling. Adfærdsdesign foreslås af nogle som en potentiel del af løsningen, men der er betydelige problemer ved denne tilgang. Ved at definere klimakrisen som wicked, argumenterer vi for, at adfærdsdesign ikke er egnet som løsningsmodel for klimakrisens grundlæggende problemer, fordi paradigmets teori om tænkning ikke indebærer den type problemløsning, klimakrisen kræver. Som alternativ præsenterer vi John Deweys filosofi og teori om tænkning, hvilket giver anledning til en revideret forståelse af facilitering af klimahandling. Via en perspektivering til Nancy Fraser pointerer vi, at handlinger skal forstås i relation til et globalt opbygget marked, der udfordrer både politiske, sociale og økologiske aspekter af vores fælles tilværelse. Med analysen peger vi på, at et ensidigt blik på personers individuelle fejlbarlige tænkning og klimahandling flytter fokus fra de fælles samfundsmæssige og markedsmæssige strukturer, hvormed definerende elementer af klimakrisens karakter (dets wickedness) overses.

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Living With the Wicked Problem of Climate Change

Cited by 16 publications

References 39 publications

A Framework for Urban Flood Resilience Assessment with Emphasis on Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions: A Qualitative Study

A Framework for Urban Flood Resilience Assessment with Emphasis on Social, Economic and Institutional Dimensions: A Qualitative Study

Sustainability in a Digital Age as a Trigger for Organizational Development in Education

Klimakrisen som et wicked problem – en kritik af klimainterventioner

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