Clumsy Solutions for a Complex World: The Case of Climate change

• Main Authors: VERWEIJ, Marco, Douglas, Mary, Ellis, Richard, Engel, Christoph, Hendriks, Frank, Lohmann, Susanne, NEY, Steven, Rayner, Steve, Thompson, Michael
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Environmental Policy; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/125
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, in...