The views expressed herein are mine alone as a 45-year power sector expert since 1980. In addition, I have been the pioneer Chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), ...

Picture this heavyweight prize-fight match up: engineering’s logical and rational approach to problem solving versus the sometimes-street brawling style of public policy development. Put the two in a ...

We used to have “balloon” debates in school: The hot-air balloon is losing height and, to avoid disaster, people must be jettisoned. To avoid this fate, everybody must justify why they should remain ...

Obesity. Climate change. Brain drain. Tax havens. War in Afghanistan. All have been described as “wicked problems”. UC Berkeley scholars, Rittel and Webber, coined the term in 1973 when they were ...

Lessons from successful cross-industry teams by Amy C. Edmondson Companies have long cooperated within their ecosystems, working with suppliers, partners, customers, and even competitors. But as the ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said the government is "working through" the possibility of offshore recognition of skills, but stopped short of making an announcement during his National Press Club ...

Climate change is a “wicked” problem, but the free market has no interest in solving it, in fact, they do much to exacerbate the problem. The Whitelees wind farm in the United Kingdom. Credit: ...

As India intensifies efforts to tackle invasive species—from Senna spectabilis in Tamil Nadu’s forests to tilapia and crayfish overrunning freshwater ecosystems—the global scientific community warns ...