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__Taking Complexity Seriously__ applies the advanced policy analysis technique of triangulation to what is now the world's most complex public policy challenge: sustainable development. 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 ap

Who reads Taking Complexity Seriously : Policy Analysis, Triangulation, and Sustainable Development?

Author

Emery Roe (auth.)

Publisher

Springer US : Imprint : Springer

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780792380580

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Science, Management