28 months later: the coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for future sustainability challenges
Engler, John-Oliver ; von Wehrden, Henrik
2023
18
5
2499-2504
sustainable development ; epidemic disease ; risk awareness ; risk management
Social sciences
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01383-4
English
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"We combine the concepts of ‘black elephants' and wicked problems with Roy Bhaskar's critical realist philosophy of science and frame the current state of the coronavirus pandemic as an analogy for impending sustainability challenges. We point out and illustrate that the interaction of different ontological levels of our world as it ‘is' will likely remain a challenge in addressing the wicked problems of our time."
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