AWW2013: Why the Need for a Holistic Approach by Zoran Vojinovic

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Source: International Disaster Database EM-DAT, University of Louvain, Belgium



Synthesis

• Engineering solutions are NOT sufficient

• Social

dimensions

have

NOT been

considered

adequately

• Ecology matters



A Paradigm Shift



Towards Holistic Paradigm

Reactive Proactive Integrative Interactive/Holistic

Reactingupon incidence Predictions Many aspects Sociotechnical interactions

Defending fromnature

Controlling thenature

Learning to livewith nature

Search for economically sound,ecologically sustainable, andsociall ust solutions

Disciplinary Multidisciplinary Interdisciplinary Transdisciplinary



A Paradigm Shift

The need for a new holistic paradigm

t at can account or uman, soc a ,

natural and material entities throughtheir interactions.



A Paradigm Shift

ara gms are accep e eores, va ues

and practices within which a particularfield o erates.

The chan e with time and new aradi msalways face great resistance.

Thomas Kuhn

(1922 – 1996)



Thinking beyond IUFM

A New

Paradi m

Shift

• Integrated – bringing

all

parts

together

into

a

• Holistic – em hasizin the im ortance of the whole

through interactions

of

its

parts;




• Integrated – bringing all parts together into a




• Holistic – emphasizing the importance of the whole



Traditional

vs.

Holistic

• Reductionist‐

parts• Existence

• Holistic‐

interactions• Co‐evolution

• Inside‐out • Outside‐in

• Doing the things right

• Doing the right thing

• Management solutions • Adaptive

environments



The Rise of Holistic Thinking

• Philosophy (Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Scheler,

er eau‐ onty, artre, oucau t, etc. ;

• Gestalt psychology (Ehrenfels, Koffka, Wertheimer,

Köhler,

etc.);

• Organismic biology (Harrison, Henderson, Woodger,

e c. ;

• Art an iterature B a e, Goet e, etc. ;




• Ecology (Haeckel, von Uexküll, Lovelock, Patten etc.);

• General system theory (von Bertalanffy, etc.);

• Cybernetics (Wiener, Forrester, etc.);

• Quantum physics

(Planck,

Heisenberg,

Bohm,

etc.);



Holistic Approach ‐ Focus

• ‐

• Transdisciplinary analysis of

risk;

• Com ination o quantitative an qua itative

aspects;• Risk governance through meaningful stakeholder

participation;

• Moving towards

eco

‐system

solutions;

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Holistic Approach ‐ Focus

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To Conclude

Source: International Disaster Database EM-DAT, University of Louvain, Belgium



Thank You

If we want things to stay as they are,

things will have to change.

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

(1896 – 1957)

AWW2013: Why the Need for a Holistic Approach by Zoran Vojinovic

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