The Ways of Wickedness: Analyzing Messiness with Messy Tools

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 447-465

  Norton, Bryan G ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary critique; Complexity; Decision heuristics; Optimization; Systems theory; Wicked problems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING THEORY; POLICY ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84865430449     PISSN: 11877863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10806-011-9333-3     Document Type: Article

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