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Resolving Messy Policy Problems - Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy (Paperback)
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Resolving Messy Policy Problems - Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy (Paperback)
Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series
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Our lives increasingly take place in ever more complex and
interconnected networks that blur the boundaries we have
traditionally used to define our social and political spaces.
Accordingly, the policy problems that governments are called upon
to deal with have become less clear-cut and far messier. This is
particularly the case with climate change, environmental policy,
transport, health and ageing - all areas in which the
tried-and-tested linear policy solutions are increasingly
inadequate or failing. What makes messy policy problems
particularly uncomfortable for policy makers is that science and
scientific knowledge have themselves become sources of uncertainty
and ambiguity. Indeed what is to count as a 'rational solution' is
itself now the subject of considerable debate and controversy. This
book focuses on the intractable conflict that characterises policy
debate about messy issues. The author first develops a framework
for analysing these conflicts and then applies the conceptual
framework to four very different policy issues: the environment -
focussing on climate change - as well as transport, ageing and
health. Using evidence from Europe, North America and the
Asia-Pacific, the book compares how policy actors construct
contending narratives in order to make sense of, and deal with,
messy challenges. In the final section the author discusses the
implications of the analysis for collective learning and adaptation
processes. The aim is to contribute to a more refined understanding
of policy-making in the face of uncertainty and, most importantly,
to provide practical methods for critical reflection on policy and
to point to sustainable adaptation pathways and learning mechanisms
for policy formulation.
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