Soft-Systems-Ansatz für Komplexe Umweltprobleme

Learners will be able to distinguish between "tame" and "wicked" problems and understand why traditional, linear approaches are ineffective for the complex, ill-defined issues that characterize the latter. They will acquire a systems-based mindset, learning to view environmental challenges as interconnected wholes rather than isolated events.

3 Exercises (50%), oral presentation 20 min. (25%), short written examination 60 minutes (25%)

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