Navigating between uncertainty and disagreement
Friday, 2 November 2018, Dr. Joop de Kraker, professor of Sustainability Assessment at ICIS, gave his inaugural address. His key message was that to deal effectively with sustainability issues, we need to acknowledge their ‘wicked’ nature, arising from the combination of causal complexity and normative plurality.
In sustainability assessment, wicked problems require us to combine efforts to identify and reduce knowledge uncertainties as well as to clarify and bridge normative disagreements. This may be achieved by engaging stakeholders in a collective experimenting and learning process, for example, in the context of urban labs.
Also read
-
Sex and gender in research: why it matters
Emma de Brabander (MheNs) addresses gender and sex differences in research and hopes to raise more awareness around these topics.
-
What does research actually say about anti-migration measures?
The German elections on 23 February were yet another in which anti-migration rhetoric dominated. Spurred on by the rise of the populist radical right, demanding drastic measures like border controls have become the norm for European centre parties. However, research shows that closing borders does...
-
Fresh air
Newly appointed professor Judith Sluimer (CARIM) talks about oxygen in heart functioning and the 'fresh air' the academic world needs.
