Integrated Knowledge Approach to Sustainability Policy

1. Integrated Knowledge Approach to Sustainability Policy Dr. Dongwon Shin Director-General & Regional Administrator Wonju Regional Environmental Office, Korean Ministry of Environment

2. The colors of the rainbow in these days Red Yellow Green Blue Violet Orange Indigo The colors of the rainbow in early days Red Yellow Green Blue Violet Rainbow is always rainbow, but the colors of rainbow are changed in the human mind. + +

3. Rainbow is always rainbow, but its expressed colors are changing in the human mind.

4. World best 10 GDPs and 10 GSIs GDP Best10 (’05) GSI Best 10 (’01)

5. World best 10 HPIs *** Happy Planet Index means ‘the average years of happy life be a given society.’ (HPI=Life Satisfaction (human mind) x Life Expectancy / Ecological Footprint)

6. Capitalistic society and Sustainable society

7. Profitability and Sustainabilityas a driving energy of subsystems Profitability Sustainability Economy Industrial Production Bureaucracy Government Culture Societal Community The Community The Ecosystem Human Mind Human Mind and Ecosystem

8. Club of Roman’s Long-term Perspectivebased on Human Civilization Natural Resources Industrial Production Pollution 1900 2100

9. Ecologist H. Odum’s Perspective based on the System of Ecology Fuels Materials INDUSTRY Environmental system SUN Consumption And Human Service Agricultural system Used Energy

10. Economist Daly’s Perspective based on Economy SUN Heat Loss ECOSPERE Recycle M M MACRO ECONOMY (Human Mind) E E M = matter E = energy : Material and energy flows

11. MBA-type Strategic Perspective based on Management Governmental Affairs Accounting Marketing Strategic planning Human resources Environmental Health safety environmental quality Based upon diverse human mind Political & Community relations Finance Legal counsel Engineering R & D

12. What is Integrated Knowledge?

13. Analytical judgment; Definition: The predicate B belongs to the Subject A. Example: ‘Water consists of 2hydrogen and 1 oxygen.’ Process: Synthetical judgment; Definition: The predicate B lies completely outside the Subject A. Example: When the snow in Canada melts, spring is coming.’ Process: Analytical judgment & Synthetical judgment (Immanuel Kant, 1724 - 1804) Starting here! Unclear, but something new Starting here! Clear, but nothing new! : Concept

14. Good example 1 of synthetical, therefore, integrative knowledge • Genesis Chapter 2 Verse 24: “ A man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife.”

15. Good example 2 of synthetical, therefore, integrative knowledge • Nuclear fusion: The joining of two light nucleus form a heavier nucleusand produce great energy. 21H + 21H 32He + 10n

16. Sustainable Society Requires a New Mode ofKnowledge.

17. Difference between the knowledge of classical society and the knowledge of sustainable society* Classical Society Sustainable Society Economy • Market focus • Rewards for achievement • Differentials • Individual self-help • Public interest • Income related to need • Egalitarian • Collective provision Knowledge • Nature as ample reserves • Confidence in science and technology • Rationality of means • Logical Positivism for the freedom of human mind • Nature as nature • Limits to science and technology • Rationality of ends • New Mode of Knowledge - Integration of facts/value and thought/feeling for the sustainability *Adapted from ‘S. Cotgrove and A. Duff, 1980 (Environmentalism, Values and Social Change, British Journal of Sociology 32, No.1: p.341’)

18. We NeedANew Mode of Knowledge. • Just think about ‘global warming, deforestation, freshwater, desertification, genetically modified foods,’ and that how many sciences and stakeholders are interconnected there. • Nevertheless, many scientists have a tendency not only to view the context of sustainability from their narrow focus, but also to take the boundaries between the scientific, the social, and the technological worlds. (A. Irwin, 2001, sociology and the environment)

19. We NeedANew Mode of Knowledge.

20. We NeedANew Mode of Knowledge.

21. Epistemological Conflicts in a sustainable society

22. The Human Mind over the Non-human World Human history has developed to realize the one value: the freedom of human mind. Economy Bureaucracy Value 1 Culture Societal Community Industrial Production Government The sustainable society requires not only the freedom of human mind, but also that of the nature. Value 1 The Community Value 2 The Ecosystem

23. Inborn Dualism in a sustainable society Industrial Production Government Paradigm of Economics The Community viewer’s position object Perspective I Perspective II viewer’s position object The Ecosystem Paradigm of Ecology

24. Endless Wars Everywherebetween Two Paradigms Beyond Science Perspective I Perspective I Science Beyond Science Perspective I Knowledge Perspective II Science Perspective I Opinions Knowledge Perspective II Perspective I Information Opinions Perspective II Perspective I Data Perspective II Information Perspective II

25. Three Subsystems of New Knowledge

26. Basic Unit of a New Mode of Knowledge in the Age of Sustainability Brown SupplierCleaner Supplier Technological Knowledge Design and build Knowledge infrastructure towards sustainability More Sustainable Program Demander for Better Commons Contextual Knowledge Reconciliatory Knowledge Demander for Better Market Compliance Program

27. Conclusion:1. EIA focuses mainly on the contextual level of knowledge.2. EIA needs to evolve into more interwoven level of knowledge-infraincluding technology and policy,3. Where eco-governance issues should be founded.