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Global Safety and Climate Change

In: Handling Societal Complexity

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  • Dorien DeTombe

    (International Research Society on Methodology of Societal Complexity)

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This chapter, Global Safety and Climate Change, discusses the problem of climate change as a complex societal problem. By doing this we reflect further on research question d: Can one general methodology for handling complex societal problems support different complex societal problems? We emphasize in this chapter the relation between the problem handling phases and the steps of the Compram methodology. In this chapter some issues about the Theory of the Methodology of Societal Complexity that has been explained earlier are illustrated in the discussion of climate change. The issue of what makes a problem a complex societal problem is discussed. The other problem we discuss in this chapter is: “Who is the problem owner of a problem that involves many different countries?” Climate change is used as an example of thinking about and handling a real-life problem that is a global problem. The rapid climate change, also referred to as global warming, has been discussed in scientific circles already for a long time (Brundtland, 1988; Legget, 1990). In the 1990s this issue was put on the political agenda (Rio de Janeiro, 1992; Kyoto Protocol, 1997; Davos, 2007). From that time on the scientific debate on climate change has been politically engaged and popularised (Luttikhuis, 2007, p. 4; De Rijk, 2007, p. 9). More and more alarming publications about rapid climate change have appeared in the media (Knip, 2007; Rosenthal, 2007; Gore, 2006; Gore, 2007). However, the discussion of the topic is often oversimplified.

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  • Dorien DeTombe, 2015. "Global Safety and Climate Change," Springer Books, in: Handling Societal Complexity, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 377-409, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-662-43917-3_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-43917-3_11
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