James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is the Brandt Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing, Michigan. Maria Lapinski is the director of the ...

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Writing for The Conversation, Thomas Bateman, a University of Virginia professor emeritus of organizational behavior, gives a lesson on confronting climate change based on psychological research.

While the idea of killing two birds with one stone (or “filling two needs with one deed”) is age-old, and the notion of co-benefits in policymaking has been around for years, multisolving addresses ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Amid a triple crisis, a 'multisolving' response can mitigate the effects of the pandemic, ...

In this session, we discussed systems change, wicked problems, and multisolving. We reviewed the transformational changes that can evolve and go beyond “cause and effect” thinking. In this dialogue, ...

Today the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change dropped the latest in its string of damning reports on the current state of the climate and its prognosis. The big picture: The effects are ...