The Ecosystem of Wicked Problems – ECOSYSTEMATIC

What does the future hold looking ahead from the third decade of the third millennium? Despite unprecedented economic and technological progress, the world as we know it is unraveling, sharp social and wealth inequalities persist, political ideologies abound, and climate change is overdetermined. Because these socio-economic, political and ecologic

In the face of increasingly complex social challenges, this results in a troubling strategic vacuum masked by frantic technocratic activity.

These challenges are sometimes referred to as wicked problems, a phrase coined in the early 1970s.

dealing with wicked problems demands that attention be paid to understanding the nature of the problem itself.

We are increasingly facing what planners call “wicked problems”—problems that are “difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize.”