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Sustainability Awareness and Expertise: Structuring the Cognitive Processes for Solving Wicked Problems and Achieving an Adaptive-State

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The term, “wicked problem,” describes the intractable nature of social policy and planning problems that are complex, engender multiple and often irreconcilable stakeholder views, have no definitive formulation, no solution algorithm or single best solution, little tolerance for imbalances or judgment error, and no single repository of expertise from which trustworthy solutions might emerge. This also describes problems of sustainability and reflects a consistent theme that emerges from the last four decades for business, science and society – the need to improve understanding of complex systems and their interactions, incorporate non-expert knowledge and public values, improve communication between expert and lay groups, and foster deliberation between business and public groups with competing deontological views.

We posit that a structured approach to problems of sustainability integrating (a) influence modeling, (b) assessments of sustainability, uncertainty, challenges and values, (c) multi-criteria decision analytics, (d) data visualization, and (e) building social capital can effectively address wicked problems. Rather than reductively “solve a problem” this approach results in a new, strategic managed-resiliency and persistent adaptive-state of coevolving capabilities we call Sustainability Awareness and Sustainability Expertise. Within this sustainability framework stakeholder communities make better versus right or wrong decisions and Sustainability becomes a practice versus a result.

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    Childhood Poverty: Retrieved from: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120920/NEWS01/309200049/Census\%20Rochester\%20childhood\%20poverty.

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    Corn: Retrieved from: http://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/outlook/cornbalancesheet.pdf.

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    Neonatal: Retrieved from: http://www.nycourts.gov/ip/access-civil-legal-services/PDF/4th-Dept-Testifying-Witnesses.pdf.

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    Black Males: Retrieved from: http://www.schottfoundation.org/urgency-of-now.pdf.

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    Climate Change: Retrieved from: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence.

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Funding for this paper was supported by National Science Foundation award #1134943, the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology, and the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University. Several people provided invaluable feedback on earlier drafts, including:

Richard Bentley, for his patience in describing his mathematical modeling of the consumption driven interrelationships between species.

Melody Cofield, Ed. D. for her insight into social currency, social capital and collaboration.Jan McDonald, Executive Director of Rochester Roots, for her insight into sustainable food systems and education and manuscript reviews and art work.Anthony W. Perrone, Sustainable Profitability for Good, for his business consulting perspectives and work on earlier drafts.Evan Selinger, Ph.D., Golisano Institute for Sustainability, RIT for his invaluable insight into the philosophy of ethics.Charles Thomas, AICP, Director of Planning, Neighborhood and Business Development for Rochester, New York for his review and comments from a municipal planning perspective.

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Sweet, D.S. et al. (2014). Sustainability Awareness and Expertise: Structuring the Cognitive Processes for Solving Wicked Problems and Achieving an Adaptive-State. In: Linkov, I. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Military Installations. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7161-1_5

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