Clumsy solutions for a complex world: The case of climate change

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Verweij, Marco; Douglas, Mary; Ellis, Richard; Engel, Christoph; Hendriks, Frank; Lohmann, Susanne; Ney, Steven; Rayner, Steve; Thompson, Michael
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London; Max Planck Society; Tilburg University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Singapore Management University; University of Oxford; University of Bergen; Constructor University
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09566.x-i1
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 817-843
• 关键词: risk

摘要

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, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others; (2) provides a clear expression of the way in which a significant portion of the populace feels we should live with one another and with nature; and (3) needs all of the others in order to be sustainable. 'Clumsy solutions' - policies that creatively combine all opposing perspectives on what the problems are and how they should be resolved - are therefore called for. We illustrate these claims for the issue of global warming.