BUSS1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Climate Action Network, Wicked Problem, Living Wage
5 Jun 2018
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complex social and policy problems
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Fairly specific problems
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Difficult to solve
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Solutions can lead to further wicked problems
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Can cause and influence megatrends (two way street between megatrends and wicked
problems)
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Wicked problems:
The term ‘wicked’ in this context is used, not in the sense of evil, but rather as an issue highly
resistant to resolution
Wicked problems are different to Megatrends, but are in many ways products of Megatrends
water and food shortages
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Not enough jobs
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Solution is difficult, can lead to other wicked problems (e.g. give a living wage but leads
to greater tax demand)
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youth unemployment
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population growth
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poverty
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climate change
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inequality
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global security
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Examples of wicked problems:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (work on preventing diseases and vaccinations)
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Climate Action Network of Australia
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Tesla (energy consumption and production towards petrol automotive)
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Many organisations look to solve these wicked problems:
They are complex and big –but they are a fixed target
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People and organizations work to solve problems
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Typically, focussed on one
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We have to remember that these wicked problems are each one manifestation of bigger social
trends and shifts.
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So we need a way conceptualizing these bigger social trends and shifts…
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Limitations of solving wicked problems:
Wicked Problems
Tuesday, 6 March 2018
12:44 PM
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