On Decision‐Analytical Support for Wicked Policy Issues

Lempert and Turner contribute importantly to the design of decision-analytical tools for wicked policy issues by acknowledging centrality socially determined often irreconcilable worldviews. Their point departure is application DMDU approach (decision making under deep uncertainty) separately each contending worldview as postulated cultural theory. This allows stakeholders maintain solidarity with their social or organizational value communities, an important consideration even prerequisite robust compromises. Drawing from a codesign process in Italy, this commentary suggests that multiworldview can be useful aiding stakeholder deliberation representing alternative problem framings worldviews, displaying implications acting on one framing when viewed others, identifying compromise solutions across framings. The challenge operationalize approach, well worth pursuing given increasingly intractable “wicked” nature today's issues.