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Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Strategies for Sustainable Development
Wicked problem include social, cultural, economic, environmental, and political problems that is difficult or impossible to solve. These, problem whose solution requires collaboration and cooperation where large number of people to change their mindsets and behavior. Therefore, many standard examples of wicked problems come from the areas of public planning and policy, such as poverty, hunger, climate change, illiteracy, healthcare, waste management, food security, terrorism and human trafficking.
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Cross-Border Cooperation for Bilateral Trade, Travel, and Tourism: A Challenge for India and Pakistan
Anita Medhekar (Central Queensland University, Australia) and Farooq Haq (Canadian University of Dubai, UAE)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2513-5.ch010
Abstract
Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) is described as collaboration with neighbouring countries sharing land or sea borders to cooperate to reduce poverty and inequality among people, and improve living standards for sustainable development of the regions. European Union key objective has been CBC model where bordering countries in balanced partnership, have equal say in program decision-making process for sustainable development to meet common goals. The three factors essential for CBC clearly defined goals, promotion of political transparency, and promotion of connectivity and communication are correlated with the four levels of CBC implementation and public-private-partnerships. This chapter examines the challenge and significance of cross border cooperative relationship between India and Pakistan to disarm and have peace, for achieving 17 sustainable development goals in bordering conflict regions between the two countries for socio-economic progress and prosperity of the millions of people living in South Asia.
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Meeting the Cognitive Demands of Leading in Times of Uncertainty
There is no definitive formulation of a problem as differing stakeholders subscribing to different valuative frameworks, will view the problem differently.
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Design Thinking: Pulling Back the Curtain on Student Leadership Learning and Development
These are complex and changing issues that are at the crux of much of the leadership learning and development work. Wicked problems are not easily defined and solutions to these problems are not clear.
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Leadership as a Wicked Problem
The term is based on the work of Rittel and Webber (1973) . There are 10 characteristics of a wicked problem. The most specific of these characteristics in connection to and in contrast with the current mode of teaching leadership is that every wicked problem is unique; a wicked problem has no stopping point- any ‘solution’ results in another wicked problem; and that there are no right or wrong answers, only good or bad ones.
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Empathy First: Refurbishing a Teams' Approach to Student Success
A problem with a complexity of social, political, and economic layers that make solving problems difficult.
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Framing Creative Problems
A type of problem definition that defies complete resolution and where requirements are not fully articulated and change over time. Truth or correctness of solutions to wicked problems cannot be established, therefore no ultimate test exists.
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Building Adaptive Community Capacity to Meet the Challenges of Global Climate Change: Challenges for Community Leadership
Problems in which there is no agreement about what the problem is or what the solution is; it is a complex problem.
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Reflection and SoTL: Putting Reflection (Back) on Faculty Radar
Problems that are ill-defined, unique, and dynamic with no answer and no clear solution.
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Critical Issues Surrounding Competency-Based Education in the Digital Age: The “Wickedness Narrative of the Problem”
A wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult to solve because of the following reasons: Incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems. Poverty is linked with education, nutrition with poverty, the economy with nutrition, and so on. These problems are typically offloaded to policy makers, or are written off as being too cumbersome to handle. Yet these are the problems—poverty, sustainability, equality, and health and wellness—that plague our cities and our world and that touch each and every one of us. These problems can be mitigated through the process of design, which is an intellectual approach that emphasizes empathy, reasoning, and rapid prototyping.
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