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Mending man's ways: Wickedness, complexity and off-road travel
Highlights I examine off-highway vehicle travel as an example of the theory of wicked problems. I develop an agent-based simulation of travel using detailed case study data. Off-highway travel is a complex system with key attributes of a wicked problem. A conventional regulatory regime has low disturbance levels but high enforcement cost. A cooperative regulatory regime taps virtuous cycles from complex behaviors.
Abstract While the concept of wickedness has been applied frequently in planning and design environments, its application to complex regulatory problems is less well-developed. Off-road and social travel has become a significant source of environmental degradation across many regions worldwide, and the widespread failures of travel regulation suggest that it has characteristics of a wicked problem as described by Rittel and Webber. This paper presents a simulation of a complex regulatory system – the interaction of cumulative travel decisions, alternative regulatory regimes, and landscape values – using a case study of a landscape adjoining Las Cruces, New Mexico. This research is built on a morphological analysis of change in travel patterns derived from historical remote sensing imagery. The findings of this paper suggest that the cumulative nature of travel demand among off-road users has important implications for the resilience of natural systems particularly in places of high demand such as metropolitan edges. Regulatory choices can create both virtuous and vicious cycles in travel behavior,which suggests opportunities for constructing adaptive strategy in off-road travel management.
Mending man's ways: Wickedness, complexity and off-road travel
Highlights I examine off-highway vehicle travel as an example of the theory of wicked problems. I develop an agent-based simulation of travel using detailed case study data. Off-highway travel is a complex system with key attributes of a wicked problem. A conventional regulatory regime has low disturbance levels but high enforcement cost. A cooperative regulatory regime taps virtuous cycles from complex behaviors.
Abstract While the concept of wickedness has been applied frequently in planning and design environments, its application to complex regulatory problems is less well-developed. Off-road and social travel has become a significant source of environmental degradation across many regions worldwide, and the widespread failures of travel regulation suggest that it has characteristics of a wicked problem as described by Rittel and Webber. This paper presents a simulation of a complex regulatory system – the interaction of cumulative travel decisions, alternative regulatory regimes, and landscape values – using a case study of a landscape adjoining Las Cruces, New Mexico. This research is built on a morphological analysis of change in travel patterns derived from historical remote sensing imagery. The findings of this paper suggest that the cumulative nature of travel demand among off-road users has important implications for the resilience of natural systems particularly in places of high demand such as metropolitan edges. Regulatory choices can create both virtuous and vicious cycles in travel behavior,which suggests opportunities for constructing adaptive strategy in off-road travel management.
Mending man's ways: Wickedness, complexity and off-road travel
Muller, Brian (author)
Landscape and Urban Planning ; 154 ; 93-101
2016-03-10
9 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Mending man's ways: Wickedness, complexity and off-road travel
| Online Contents | 2016
Mending man's ways: Wickedness, complexity and off-road travel
| Online Contents | 2016
British Library Online Contents | 1997
Online Contents | 1997