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Synthesis
• Engineering solutions are NOT sufficient
• Social
dimensions
have
NOT been
considered
adequately
• Ecology matters
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A Paradigm Shift
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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
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A Paradigm Shift
The need for a new holistic paradigm
t at can account or uman, soc a ,
natural and material entities throughtheir interactions.
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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)
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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;
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Thinking beyond IUFM
• Integrated – bringing all parts together into a
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Thinking beyond IUFM
• Holistic – emphasizing the importance of the whole
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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
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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. ;
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The Rise of Holistic Thinking
• Ecology (Haeckel, von Uexküll, Lovelock, Patten etc.);
• General system theory (von Bertalanffy, etc.);
• Cybernetics (Wiener, Forrester, etc.);
• Quantum physics
(Planck,
Heisenberg,
Bohm,
etc.);
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The Rise of Holistic Thinking
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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
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Thank You
If we want things to stay as they are,
things will have to change.
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
(1896 – 1957)