Super Wicked Problems and Climate Change: Restraining the Present to Liberate the Future

By R. Lazarus. 2008

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• Climate change accounting research: keeping it interesting and different (2011, background): “The problem has been described, aptly we suggest, as ‘wicked’ or ‘superwicked’ (Lazarus, 2008; Ludwig, 2001) and consequently without solution or perhaps in need of a ‘clumsy’ one (Verweij et al., 2006).”
• Anticipatory Governance (2010, background): “…(meaning its inevitability, the lack of agreement on its causes, uncertainty about its effects and their spatial and temporal distribution, the wide range of solutions, and the potentially extreme consequences of being wrong; Rittel & Webber, 1973) has stymied adaptation efforts (Lazarus, 2009).”
• Climate Change Skepticism and Denial (2013, background): “…& Fischhoff, 2011; Weber, 2010).1 These characteristics of AGW also make formulating and implementing measures that might be effective in limiting the degree and impact of continued warming more difficult for policy makers, leading to AGW being termed a “super-wicked problem” (Lazarus, 2009).”
• Bearing worlds: learning to live-with climate change (2019, background): “We are asking students, and people more generally, to engage with what has been described as a ‘super wicked problem’ (Lazarus 2008, 1153) and the ‘greatest moral challenge of our time’ (Hudson 2017, n.p.), but I am not sure any words we have available can do justice to the political, social,…”
• The role of knowledge and power in climate change adaptation governance: a systematic literature review (2013, background): “Some have referred to climate change adaptation as a “wicked problem par excellence” (Rittel and Webber 1973, Lazarus 2008, Davoudi et al. 2009, Jordan et al. 2010), which cannot be precisely formulated or solved, because of widely diverging problem formulations and vested interests.”
• Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (2018, background): “Recent theorizing on wicked problems has also identified additional features of “super wicked” problems, such as climate change, including: “time is running out,” “those seeking to end the problem are also causing it,” there is “no central authority” able to address the problem, and policies are lim”
• The legacy of our CO2 emissions: a clash of scientific facts, politics and ethics (2015, background): “Some have argued it is worse – a ‘super-wicked problem’ – in that delaying action will make it worse and more costly, in that it is global yet there is no global institutional framework to enforce a solution, and in that those who cause it are not those affected most (Lazarus 2009).”
• Credible commitment in carbon policy (2012, background): “In sum, carbon policy deals with a so-called ‘super-wicked problem’ (Lazarus, 2009) that is characterized by deep uncertainties, many interdependencies, and complex social dynamics.”