Abstract: This paper endeavours to critically examine the different ways in which policymakers can effectively tackle wicked problems. It explains the best possible strategies when resolving policy crisis – stating the nature, scope and meaning of crisis. The piece demonstrates the characteristics of wicked problems and crisis. It profoundly presents the complexity of crisis and such problems by referring the policy areas of climate change and poverty. The objective of the paper is to suggests that wicked problems and crisis have no quick fix as stakeholders have different understanding of the problem definition as well as its solutions. Therefore, to tackle such a problem and crisis in which its causes and effects are unknown – policymakers need to effectively address the nature of the problems. By doing so policymakers need to engage different stakeholders on a long-term focus, which is outside of the box thinking.
Keywords: Wicked Problems, Crisis, Stakeholders, Policymaking, Problem-Solving, Climate Change, Poverty.
Title: Wicked Problems and Crisis: Policy Areas of Climate Change and Poverty
Author: Mohamed O. Hagi Mohamoud
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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