About the Book: Wicked Problems : How to Engineer a Better World
Our world is filled with pernicious problems. How, for example, did novice
pilots learn to fly without taking to the air and risking their lives? How
should cities process mountains of waste without polluting the environment?
Challenges that tangle personal, public, and planetary aspects-often occurring
in health care, infrastructure, business, and policy-are known as wicked
problems, and they are not going away anytime soon..
In this book, Guru Madhavan illuminates how wicked problems have emerged
throughout history and how best to address them in the future. He examines
best-known tragedies and lesser-known tales, from the efficient