Rangeland Ecosystem Service Markets: Panacea or Wicked Problem?

Needle exchange: panacea or problem?

DE NOMBREUSES DONNÉES PROBANTES INDIQUENT que les programmes d’échange d’aiguilles sont rentables et peuvent aider à contrôler la transmission de l’infection par le VIH chez les consommateurs de drogues injectées. Ils peuvent toutefois être moins efficaces dans le cas des personnes qui s’injectent de la cocaïne, dont le nombre est à la hausse, et l’on craint que, en attirant les consommateurs d...

Improving ecosystem service frameworks to address wicked problems

Complex problems often result from the multiple interactions between human activities and ecosystems. The interconnected nature of ecological and social systems should be considered if these “wicked problems” are to be addressed. Ecosystem service approaches provide an opportunity to link ecosystem function with social values, but in practice the essential role that social dynamics play in the ...

Flagship Regeneration: panacea or urban problem

Large scale flagship urban regeneration projects have been a favoured tool for economic growth and city boosterism by civic leaders for more than two decades. Such projects are intended to play a catalytic role in urban regeneration often by creating high profile and high end retail, residential, entertainment and tourist spaces in what were once derelict or underused urban space. They are ofte...

Prescription drug reimportation. Panacea or problem?

Digital government and wicked problems: Solution or problem?

The theme of the 16 International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2015) – “Digital Government and Wicked Problems” – drew attention to the increasingly complex global problems we are facing today. In the late 1960s, the term “wicked problems” was coined to refer to societal and public planning problems that had no definitive solutions [1,2]. Many problems, such as those identifi...