Wicked problems

Wicked problems are intractable. They may be too big to solve (planetary, international, global) or continually created by a multitude of other problems or they may be insoluble because they cannot be defined in any meaningful way that enables their resolution.

1. Unsolved problems
2. General obstacles to problem alleviation
3. Failure to integrate knowledge to empower humanity in response to the global problematique
4. Failure to conceptualize large-scale problems
5. Difficulty
6. Complex interrelationship of world problems

1. Unsolved social problems
2. Nuclear legacy
3. Intractable waste
4. Intractable diseases
5. Insoluble scientific problems
6. Chronic pain

1. Unsolved problems
2. Non-recognition of problems
3. Inaction on problems
4. Fixation on partial solutions to problems
5. Failure of remedial action plans
6. Excessive emphasis on fashionable problems
7. Disillusionment
8. Crisis oriented operations
9. Constraint of inherited problems on policy innovation

1. Recurrence of misapprehended world problems
2. Corruption

1. Studying intractable problems
2. Problem-solving

1. Problem
2. Intractability

1. Wicked Problems - Problems worth solving
2. Tackling wicked problems : A public policy perspective