Clumsy solutions for a complex world: The case of climate change

被引:223
作者
Verweij, Marco [1 ]
Douglas, Mary
Ellis, Richard
Engel, Christoph
Hendriks, Frank
Lohmann, Susanne
Ney, Steven
Rayner, Steve
Thompson, Michael
机构
[1] UCL, London WC1E 6BT, England
[2] Max Planck Inst Res Collect Goods Bonn, D-53113 Bonn, Germany
[3] Tilburg Univ, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands
[4] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024 USA
[5] Singapore Management Univ, Singapore, Singapore
[6] Univ Oxford, James Martin Sci & Civilizat, Oxford OX1 2JD, England
[7] Musgrave Inst, London, England
[8] Univ Bergen, Stein Rokkan Ctr, N-5020 Bergen, Norway
[9] Int Univ Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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D O I
10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09566.x-i1
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
Successful solutions to pressing social ills tend to consist of innovative combinations of a limited set of alternative ways of perceiving and resolving the issues. These contending policy perspectives justify, represent and stem from four different ways of organizing social relations: hierarchy, individualism, egalitarianism and fatalism. Each of these perspectives: (1) distils certain elements of experience and wisdom that are missed by the others; (2) provides a clear expression of the way in which a significant portion of the populace feels we should live with one another and with nature; and (3) needs all of the others in order to be sustainable. 'Clumsy solutions' - policies that creatively combine all opposing perspectives on what the problems are and how they should be resolved - are therefore called for. We illustrate these claims for the issue of global warming.
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页码:817 / 843
页数:27
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