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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Analyzing Policy Issues of High Uncertainty and Complexity
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The Sustainable Development Controversy
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A Case of Sustainable Development
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About this book
One central problem of public policy analysis has been to find new ways of analyzing issues of increasing complexity and uncertainty. Triangulation is perhaps the best example of these novel techniques, as it uses various methods, databases, theories, and approaches to converge on what to do about the complex issue in question.
Taking Complexity Seriously uses four different theoretical approaches (Girardian economics, cultural theory, critical theory, and the local justice framework) to triangulation in order to converge on answers to four major policy questions:
- What is sustainable development?
- Why is it an issue?
- What needs to be done?
- What can actually be done?
These four approaches are used to analyze the sustainable development controversy that recently arose in the pages of Science magazine and the journal Ecological Applications. These different approaches prove highly potent in defamiliarizing conventional wisdom about sustainable development. Ultimately the different approaches will converge on novel answers to the four questions. The practical implications of these conclusions are drawn out at the end of Taking Complexity Seriously in a detailed case study of ecosystem management.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Taking Complexity Seriously
Book Subtitle: Policy Analysis, Triangulation and Sustainable Development
Authors: Emery Roe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5497-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1998
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-8058-0Published: 30 November 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7511-1Published: 29 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-5497-4Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 138
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Economics, Economic Geology