Climate Change Handled By the Compram Methodology

Climate change is a complex societal problem and a threat to humanity and global safety. Handling these worldwide threats needs a special approach of analyzing, organizing, legalizing and decision making supported of scientists specialized in handling complex societal problems.

This complex societal interdisciplinary problem has to be handled in a multidisciplinary way, including the knowledge of experts from different fields in order to see more phenomena of the problems. Then the parties/stakeholders have to be considered. In complex societal issues are many different parties/stakeholders involved each with different goals, different desires and different power. In handle a complex societal problem emotion plays an important role. Emotions in the problem handling process as well in the power groups as for the people outside

The Compram methodology is based on the idea that societal problems must be handled cooperatively with experts, policy makers and stakeholders together and include the opinion of the people. These difficult and complicated group processes are guided and structured by a facilitator in a six-step approach. Experts, stakeholders and policymakers discuss the content and possible changes based on a cooperative created simulation model of the problem. The emphasizes of the methodology is on facilitating the exchange of knowledge and understanding, communication among and between the experts, stakeholders and politicians, and before implementing the changes consultation of the opinion of the people.

Knowledge, power and emotions are the basic elements in handing complex societal problems. The Compram methodology is a prescriptive framework methodology in which all kind of sub-methods can be applied. The Compram methodology is selected in 2006 by the OECD to handle global safety.