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Wicked Problems in a Warming World

Wicked Problems in a Warming World We live in a warming world. Human activity has increased the carbon in the atmosphere, depleted the Earth’s capacity to adapt to change, and temperatures are rapidly rising. Whereas environmental ethics have historically focused on climate change as a crisis to be averted, in this issue we consider climate change as a present, ongoing reality with which religious communities and practitioners are already deeply engaged. In this special issue of Worldviews we focus on climate change as a shifting ethical problem that demands new ways of moral reasoning that are dynamic, multi-generational, pluralistic, and unequivocally global. To summarize the nature of a “wicked” problem, according to Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber’s founding definition, these problems: 1) have no definitive formulation; 2) have no clear-cut stopping point; 3) have solutions that are best understood as “better” or “worse” rather than as true or false; 4) have no ultimate testable solution; 5) have solutions that are only one-shot operations because every solution will create multiple effects all of which cannot be repeated; 6) have no finite set of possible solutions or outcomes; 7) are each unique and have their own sets of changing parameters; 8) are all symptoms of other problems; http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Worldviews Brill

Wicked Problems in a Warming World

Riley, Matthew T.; Bauman, Whitney A.
Worldviews , Volume 21 (1): 5 – Jan 1, 2017
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We live in a warming world. Human activity has increased the carbon in the atmosphere, depleted the Earth’s capacity to adapt to change, and temperatures are rapidly rising. Whereas environmental ethics have historically focused on climate change as a crisis to be averted, in this issue we consider climate change as a present, ongoing reality with which religious communities and practitioners are already deeply engaged. In this special issue of Worldviews we focus on climate change as a shifting ethical problem that demands new ways of moral reasoning that are dynamic, multi-generational, pluralistic, and unequivocally global. To summarize the nature of a “wicked” problem, according to Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber’s founding definition, these problems: 1) have no definitive formulation; 2) have no clear-cut stopping point; 3) have solutions that are best understood as “better” or “worse” rather than as true or false; 4) have no ultimate testable solution; 5) have solutions that are only one-shot operations because every solution will create multiple effects all of which cannot be repeated; 6) have no finite set of possible solutions or outcomes; 7) are each unique and have their own sets of changing parameters; 8) are all symptoms of other problems;

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Published: Jan 1, 2017

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