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Wicked Problems and Disasters

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Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change

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Wicked problems and disasters are those types of natural and technological disasters that are particularly intense or challenging such as the Fukushima Nuclear Plant disaster that occurred after a tsunami in Japan in 2011 or the Haitian Earthquake in 2010. There is a wide range of natural disasters such as geologic disasters and water and atmospheric disasters that are problematic due to unsustainable living conditions on the ground or changes to natural systems (i.e. climate change). Technological disasters like war or radioactive releases cause major existential problems for humans and their environment. Many have encouraged communities to become more resilient so that they can thrive during and after a disaster occurrence. A new field of resiliency studies has emerged in recent years.

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Brinkmann, R. (2020). Wicked Problems and Disasters. In: Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28203-5_4

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