Chapter 5. A Social Learning Framework for a Wicked Problem: The Case of Energy1

The way to regulate well in times of great uncertainty is by learning rather than controlling. Not learning the answers to known questions that serve the intent to control but learning what questions about balancing and optimizing now merit asking and then learning how those questions might be answered provisionally — until the present moment emerges into a new context of questions.– Donald N. Michael (1983) Mathematics and dogma often “serve as a substitute for the usually arduous task of co...