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Wicked conflict: Using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict.

ABSTRACT: Conservation conflict is widespread, damaging, and has proved difficult to manage using conventional conservation approaches. Conflicts are often "wicked problems," lacking clear solutions due to divergent values of stakeholders, and being embedded within wickedly complex environments. Drawing on the concept of wicked environmental problems could lead to management strategies better suited to tackling conflict. However, it is unclear whether managers are embracing ideas from the wicked problems concept. There is currently a lack of guidance for applying strategies to tackle particular wicked problems, such as conservation conflict. We explored the suitability of wicked problems-inspired management, using eight contemporary conflict case studies. Conservation conflict was managed predominantly using conventional approaches suited to tackling single objectives in simple environments, rather than balancing competing objectives in complex environments. To deal with different characteristics of wickedness, we recommend that managers develop strategies combining distributed decision-making, diverse opinions, pattern-based predictions, trade-off-based objectives, and reporting of failures. Recent advances in conservation conflict research have focused on improving interactions among stakeholders. We believe that such stakeholder-focused approaches would dovetail with the whole-system focus of a wicked problems framework, allowing conservationists to move toward a holistic strategy for managing conservation conflict.

SUBMITTER: Mason THE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360488 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Wicked conflict: Using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict.

Mason Tom H E THE Pollard Chris R J CRJ Chimalakonda Deepthi D Guerrero Angela M AM Kerr-Smith Catherine C Milheiras Sergio A G SAG Roberts Michaela M R Ngafack Paul P Bunnefeld Nils N

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Conservation conflict is widespread, damaging, and has proved difficult to manage using conventional conservation approaches. Conflicts are often "wicked problems," lacking clear solutions due to divergent values of stakeholders, and being embedded within wickedly complex environments. Drawing on the concept of wicked environmental problems could lead to management strategies better suited to tackling conflict. However, it is unclear whether managers are embracing ideas from the wicked problems ...[more]

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Wicked conflict: Using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict.

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Wicked conflict: Using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict.

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