TY - JOUR
T1 - The COVID-19 crisis and complexity
T2 - A soft systems approach
AU - El-Taliawi, Ola G.
AU - Hartley, Kris
PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis with high complexity and should be understood as such by scholarship. A complexity science approach situates increasingly divergent ideological and epistemological perspectives about the crisis within the practical exigencies of containment and mitigation measures. We ask which of the seven stages of soft systems methodology contributes to deeper understandings about COVID-19 as a policy issue, beyond the contributions of current and conventional perspectives. The discussion outlines implications for practice and places them within broader debates about tensions between scientific facts and political values.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis with high complexity and should be understood as such by scholarship. A complexity science approach situates increasingly divergent ideological and epistemological perspectives about the crisis within the practical exigencies of containment and mitigation measures. We ask which of the seven stages of soft systems methodology contributes to deeper understandings about COVID-19 as a policy issue, beyond the contributions of current and conventional perspectives. The discussion outlines implications for practice and places them within broader debates about tensions between scientific facts and political values.
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U2 - 10.1111/1468-5973.12337
DO - 10.1111/1468-5973.12337
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
SN - 0966-0879
VL - 29
SP - 104
EP - 107
JO - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
JF - Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
IS - 1
ER -
