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Looking at the issue of climate change with a left brain approach. Why its both a challenge and an opportunity and challenging the 100% focus on certainty before action takes place. Targeted to a general audience and part of an assignment for a course I am taking.
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Climate Change: A Wicked but Solvable Problem
A Digital Artifactby Leisa Perch
Wicked Problems
• Rittel and Webber (1972) in “Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning” defined 10 general criteria.
• Tackling climate change fits these to a “T”. This presentation shows how.
• Links made with available science and experiences throughout the course in shaping this artifact.
Explanations and Interests: This is natural for who?
Venice flooding 2008 – Photo by Andrea Pattero/AFP/Getty Images
Looking Back can only help so much
Adapted from Climate Change and Sustaining Caribbean Tourism by Mareba Scott, CC and Tourism, BVI, 2007
One Issue, Many Elements
Source: Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, WRI, 2003
Part of a Much Bigger Problem
National Footprint Accounts, 2011 Edition
Who’s asking, who’s looking?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1HWoL5Xwdk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnlpv_G8f94
Not right or wrong: Better or WorseExposure to natural disaster
Nation
(Individual,
Household or
Community)
Social Susceptibility Social Resilience
Measure of social vulnerability
Construct of Social Vulnerability developed by Asha Kambon, 2005
Solutions without limits, without end and sometimes in contradiction
Sometimes solutions can generate other problems
Source: Oxfam, 2011
Failure can be costly…..little room for trial and error
Heavy rain: the Brazilian town of Jacuipe is swamped by floodwaters from the Jacuipe River. (AFP: Thiago Sampaio)
Pakistan post flood – displaced families. (All rights reserved by UNDP Pakistan)
Key Messages
The responsibility
is ours
The Cost of Inaction is Too High
Managing Risk is the SMART thing to do!
Uncertainty is not an
excuse for inaction