“人口与社会政策大讲堂”第十一期——Working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: The blinds and hippopotamus

讲座名称: “人口与社会政策大讲堂”第十一期——Working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: The blinds and hippopotamus
讲座时间: 2015-09-25
讲座人: 象伟宁
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讲座内容: 讲座名称:“人口与社会政策大讲堂”第十一期 讲座题目:Working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: The blinds and hippopotamus  讲座时间:2015年9月25日(周五),15:00-16:30 讲座地点:公共政策与管理学院实验中心会议室 英文论文写作workshop:2015年9月25日(周五),16:50-19:00  讲座人:象伟宁教授 讲座内容简介: Working with wicked problems in socio-ecological systems: The blinds and hippopotamus “How is it we can get to the Moon when we can’t get to the airport?” asked former Berkeley planning professor Melvin Webber five decades ago when he presented the thesis he and fellow design science professor Horst Rittel developed that numerous problems in planning, management, and policy-making are by nature wicked, and stand in sharp contrast to the problems of engineering and sciences. Their management science colleague C. West Churchman further charged both the academic and professional communities with the moral responsibilities to raise a general awareness about wicked problems, commit to an honest acceptance of their intractability, and create innovative adaptation strategies and approaches to live with them. The past 40 years have witnessed a sustained and positive response to their calls for awareness, acceptance, and adaptation. The progress, however, has been and remains slow. In the arena of landscape change analysis where myriad volume of information and knowledge has been generated at an unprecedented rate as a response to rapid and massive landscape change induced by urbanization and globalization, analysts who come into contact with planning are being slow in recognizing the wicked nature of planning and policy-making problems, and often tend to regard planning and policy-making as an applied version of landscape analysis. With little awareness that landscape change analysis sets it apart from an ordinary scientific endeavor when being contextualized in providing support to landscape planners and policy-makers who work with wicked problems, they see in landscape planning and policy-making an instance of landscape change research and often treat planning and policy-making as a practical demonstration of the scientific principles of landscape change research. This innocently romantic mentality many landscape analysts operate under helps explain the rising concerns about the marginal effectiveness of landscape change scholarship in support of landscape planning and policy-making, and vindicate the growing appeal for “actionable [landscape change] science”. How can landscape change analysis, as a practice of knowledge production, respond to Churchman’s charge in a socially responsible and morally ethical way? What inspirations can landscape analysts get from Rittel-Webber-Churchman’s migration from the influence of neo-positivist ideas? What can they do both in research and through community engagement to become a trustworthy and useful partner in the enterprise of working with wicked problems? Answers to these and other pertaining questions are important to both camps of analysts and planners/policy makers, and all depend upon their comprehension of the real meaning underlying the question Webber raised five decades ago.
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