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Complexity, wickedness, and public forests

G.M. Allen, +1 more
- 01 Apr 1986 - 
- Vol. 84, Iss: 4, pp 20-23
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This article is published in Journal of Forestry.The article was published on 1986-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 225 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Wickedness.

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Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management

TL;DR: The concept of "wicked problems" has attracted increasing focus in policy research, but the implications for public organizations have received less attention as mentioned in this paper. But the main organizational and cognitive dimensions emerging from the research literature on wicked problems.
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Fisheries and coastal governance as a wicked problem

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the wicked problem as a governability issue and propose a framework to locate the wicked problems within the fisheries and coastal governance system, as well as examine their governability.
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Adaptive management of natural resources--framework and issues.

TL;DR: Key elements, processes, and issues in adaptive decision making are highlighted in terms of this framework, and special emphasis is given to the question of geographic scale, the difficulties presented by non-stationarity, and organizational challenges in implementing adaptive management.
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Adaptive Management: Promises and Pitfalls

TL;DR: Evidence shows that scientific adaptive management relies excessively on the use of linear systems models, discounts nonscientific forms of knowledge, and pays inadequate attention to policy processes that promote the development of shared understandings among diverse stakeholders.
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Wicked Problems in Public Policy

TL;DR: Some of the most difficult policy problems of the modern era have been described as complex, intractable, open-ended and "wicked" as discussed by the authors, and are they really very different in nature from more routine problems? Are we developing better ways to address these wicked problems?
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