Ebook: Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

From climate change to GM foods, we are increasingly confronted with complex, interconnected social and environmental problems that span disciplines, knowledge bases and value systems. This book offers a transdisciplinary, open approach for those working towards resolving these 'wicked' problems and highlights the crucial role of this 'transdisciplinary imagination' in addressing the shift to sustainable futures. Tackling Wicked Problems provides readers with a framework and practical examples that will guide the design and conduct of their own open-ended enquiries. In this approach, academic d. Read more... List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part 1 The Ideas; Chapter 1 Towards a Just and Sustainable Future; Chapter 2 Beyond Disciplinary Confinement to Imaginative Transdisciplinarity; Chapter 3 A Philosophical Framework for an Open and Critical Transdisciplinary Inquiry; Chapter 4 Collective Inquiry and Its Wicked Problems; Chapter 5 Ignorance and Uncertainty; Part 2 The Practice; Overview; Chapter 6 Conducting an Imaginative Transdisciplinary Inquiry; Chapter 7 Specialized Inquiry; Chapter 8 Community-Based Inquiry