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Cape Town - Globalisation has given rise to a whole new generation of "wicked problems" that seem almost impossible to fix, according to Dr Verena, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB).
Finding new ways to approach them will be the main focus of a conference hosted by the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business on November 25 and 26 2013.
"The world today is beset by complex challenges that seem almost impossible to solve: Climate change, poverty, food insecurity and biodiversity loss," said Bitzer.
"Each of these contains multiple factors and considerations, some of which may even be unknown and cannot be solved by one body, organisation or country alone."
Keynote speakers at the conference will include Minister Trevor Manuel, chair of the National Planning Commission (NDP) and Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana, (CEO of the Cape Town Partnership) as well as international academics.
The notion of wicked problems stems from the 1970s when it was coined in the urban planning sphere, to refer to problems that were so complex that they could not be solved by conventional methods.
This could be due to the involvement of multiple stakeholders, due to scientific uncertainty and lack of knowledge – as for instance in the case of climate change – or due to multiple groups being affected in different ways and having different perspectives on the same issues and conflicting views on the outcome of policies.
More information about the conference is available at BSEI@gsb.uct.ac.za.
- Fin24
Finding new ways to approach them will be the main focus of a conference hosted by the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business on November 25 and 26 2013.
"The world today is beset by complex challenges that seem almost impossible to solve: Climate change, poverty, food insecurity and biodiversity loss," said Bitzer.
"Each of these contains multiple factors and considerations, some of which may even be unknown and cannot be solved by one body, organisation or country alone."
Keynote speakers at the conference will include Minister Trevor Manuel, chair of the National Planning Commission (NDP) and Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana, (CEO of the Cape Town Partnership) as well as international academics.
The notion of wicked problems stems from the 1970s when it was coined in the urban planning sphere, to refer to problems that were so complex that they could not be solved by conventional methods.
This could be due to the involvement of multiple stakeholders, due to scientific uncertainty and lack of knowledge – as for instance in the case of climate change – or due to multiple groups being affected in different ways and having different perspectives on the same issues and conflicting views on the outcome of policies.
More information about the conference is available at BSEI@gsb.uct.ac.za.
- Fin24
