Holoarquia de la sostenibilidad

Seminario – Complejidad, Medio Ambiente, EducaciónCatedra UNESCO de Educación Ambiental y Desarrollo

SostenibleAlcoy, 14,15,16 Septiembre 2006

Mas allá de la complejidad: Holoarquia de la sostenibilidad

Rodrigo JilibertoTAU Consultora Ambiental, España

[email protected]

La narrativa

• Complejidad y sostenibilidad • El arranque epistemológico• La holoarquía de la sostenibilidad

• El potencial analítico• La realidad de que da cuenta la holoarquía

Complejidad y sostenibilidad

• Sostenibilidad como objeto de política es simple

• La complejidad emerge con el objeto de conocimiento que informa la decisión

• La complejidad se deriva de tener que construir un objeto de análisis en el que necesariamente confluyen diversos lenguajes analíticos estancos


• Pareciera que la complejidad consiste en que el objeto de análisis está indeterminado

• De facto el problema es que el objeto de análisis no se puede constituir

• Se trata de una pseudo complejidad


• La pseudo complejidad se deriva de la pulsión a decir la sostenibilidad desde el conocimiento científico-analítico-empiricista

• Esto responde a la pulsión por mantener el modelo de decisión manipulativo-predictivo para el cual las ciencia estandar es básico


• Una lectura alternativa del mensaje de integración que supone la sostenibilidad es que deseamos revisar nuestro modelo de desarrollo humano trascendiendo el modelo de decisión manipulativo-predictivo


• Apostar por modelos orientados a gestionar la contingencia, modelos destinados a reabrir el diálogo entre sistemas, entre sociedad y naturaleza. Se trata de modelos heurísticos, contingentes, enactivos y participados


• Los modelos heurísticos, contingentes, enactivos y participados implican descripciones a las cuales los conceptos de incertidumbre y complejidad le resultan ajenos, pues no aspiran a la certidumbre, ni tiene un fundamento universalista y representacionalista del conocimiento


• El modelo holoárquico materializa una epistemología heurística, contingente, enactiva y participada para construcción de objetos de conocimiento cuya supuesta complejidad se deriva de la necesidad de considerar simultáneamente lenguajes analíticos irreductibles

El arranque epistemológico de

la holoarquía

• ¿Qué implica el afán de sostenibilidad en términos analíticos?

• La respuesta tradicional: • Integración de objetos analíticos ya existentes en una unica unidad analítica

• Esto se obtiene mediante la identificación, medición y evaluación (paradigma empiricista) de sus relaciones exteriores de dependencia mutuas (sistemismo lato)


la holoarquía

El modelo mecánico

M1. TERRITORYOCUPATION

M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION

M4. IDENTITY,VALUES,

ENTERPRENEURSHIP

M5. R+D,PRODUCTIVITY,QUALIFICATION

M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY

M7.TERRITORIALSTRUCTURE

M8.INSTITUTIONALFRAMEWORK

urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses

territorial developments

framework knowledge

individualenterpreneurship

confidence / framework

confidence


competitivityqualification

identity / framework

availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities

Objetos de análisis ontológicamente independientes

Relaciojnes de realimentación

Unidad de Análisis

La sostenibilidad se alcanza cuando se obtiene un

equilibrio de realimetnación entre las entidades

consideradas

Esta es la idea detras del concepto de umbral límite

Las limitaciones del modelo mecánico

Las limitaciones del modelo mecánico• Teórico: carencia de una teoría del

todo• Metodológica: carencia de guías

analíticas adecuadas• Operativas: carencia de unidades de

medida homogeneas

Valor añadido epistemológico difuso:

Promesa cognitiva no cumplida

Racionalidad procedimental infundada-no hay estado de cosas que sea el caso

• El afán de integración que supone la sostenibilidad significa, analíticamente, alcanzar una visión integrada en la base de nuestro mundo

• El primer paso consiste en alcanzar una visión integrada de esa entidad que como totalidad subyace a nuestro mundo y que como tal debe ser sostenible


la holoarquía

Para construir esa entidad se requiere una

espistemología autónoma de la de los

elementos proto constituyentes de la

sostenibilidad (economía, sociedad,

ambientes, etc)El arranque epistemológico de

la holoarquía

Esto significa que los conocimientos estándares que disponemos de lo

económico, lo social, lo ecológico y ambiental, y de otros sistemas

proto-constitutivos de la sostenibilidad, no es lo que necesitamos saber cuando

intentamos construir un objeto de conocimiento denominado

sostenibilidad

Ellos nos remiten inexorablemente a entidades ontológicamente

separadas


la holoarquía

Dejando emerger la emergencia

Es preciso trascender el modelo input-output mecánico y dotar al conjunto de una lógica unitaria de la cual surga una totalidad a la cual se le pueda formular la cuestión de su sostenibilidad

Es preciso describir nuestro mundo como una totalidad compuesta de unidades en jerarquía es decir como una holoarquía

Holon: totalidad que es parte de una unidad mayor

The sustainability holarchy

Depth

Surface-Extension

PHYSIOSPHERE

BIOSPHERE

ECONOMY

CITIES

INSTITUTIONS

KNOWLEDGE

POLICIES

TERRITORY

GOVERNANCE

SOCIAL WELFARE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

ORDER

SUSTENANCE

Holarchical axiomatic principles (I)

• Holons have a given extension and depth, which fix their location within the holarchy

• Holons exist in a mutual ontological interdependency. The deeper holons grow on the ground built by the lower holons. Lower holons health depend on the cooperation/integration capacity of the upper holons

• Deeper holons contains elements of all less deep holons

• Less deep holons do not contain elements of the higher holons

• The higher located holons increase the complexity of the holarchy; the lower located ones increase its basis

Economy

Institutions

Biosphere

Differentiation/Subordination Relationships

Integration /Cooperation Relationships

Holarchical relationships

Each holon has as many differentiation relationships as holons are below it

Each holon has as many subordination relationships as holons are above it

Languages

Holarchical axiomatic principles (II)

• Differentiation means in this context to develop the capability to go beyond the basis on which the holon is based, to transcend it.

• Differentiation process are triggered by the development of specific languages

• The differentiation process is always a process of deepening the identity of the holon: e.g.

the creed of the institutional holon:• I recognise the regional physiosphere and the

biosphere as my natural context but what I am does not depend on it

• I recognise the regional economy as my financial basis but what I am does not depend on it

• I recognise cities and the territory as my spatial context but what I am does not depend on it

Economy

Institutions

Biosphere

Realization functions

Sustenance functions

Economics realisation (1)

Institutional realisations (2)

Holarchical functions

Each holon has as many realization functions as holons are below it

Each holon has as many sustenance functions as holons are above it

Holarchical axiomatic principles (III)

• The state of each relationship and function in the holarchy is dynamically determined by the state of all relationships and functions in the holarchy

• The differentiation process is the driving force of holarchy’s development

• Differentiation languages are considered so far as exogenous factors, as the inputs for the lowest holon

• Realizations at all holons can be either considered as material for the sustenance processes within the holarchy or as exogenous input to other holarchies

• The realization at the highest holon can be considered as the negentropy the holarchy is capable to produce

Economy

Institutions

Biosphere



Holarchical pathologies and sustainability crises

Lack of cooperation

Lack of subordination

Lack of differentiation

Lack of integration

Sustenance crises

Realization crises

Holarchical axiomatic principles (IV)

• Holarchical pathologies appear because of not fully developed differentiation processes along the holarchical pyramid

• Not fully developed differentiation processes up stream in the holarchical pyramid generate lack of integration/cooperation processes down stream the pyramid

• Lack of integration/cooperation processes down stream weaken the sustenance capability of the holarchy and the realizations at all holons

• Weak sustenance and realization capacities limit the potential for stronger differentiation processes

Sustainability potential

Economy

Institutions

BiosphereDifferentiation/Subordination Relationships

Integration/Cooperation Relationships

Sustenance function



Realization function

Holarchical sustainability potential

Chapter three: is there a happy end?

Ultimately, the analysis of sustainability would consist in the

analysis of the state of development of the capacity for

differentiation and integration that governs the totality of the

hierarchical pyramid

Beyond the fragmentary analysis

• The holarchical paradigm put in place an effective integrated horizontal analysis among the standard analytically fragmented systems

• There are no sectoral question, all analytical questions are by definition horizontal

• It doesn’t matter the economy as such, but its degree of differentiation from the natural environment, its level of subordination and integration from the cities, institutions, policies, and values, its capacity to cooperate with the biosphere and the physiosphere, an so on.

Potenciales holoárquicos

Potentials/Dimensions Systemic Holarchical

Autopoietic The holon differentiates

The holon cooperates

Identity The holon develops differentiations languages

The holon develops cooperation languages

Reciprocity The holon develops subordination languages

The holon develops integration languages

Cohesion The holon is integrated

The holon is subordinated

Cooperative The holon is sustained The holon sustains

Creative The holon is produced The holon reproduces

The sustainability holarchy at the Murcia Region in Spain

Depth

Surface-Extension

PHYSIOSPHERE

BIOSPHERE

ECONOMY

CITIES

INSTITUTIONS

KNOWLEDGE

POLICIES

TERRITORY

GOVERNANCE

SOCIAL WELFARE

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Main holarchical dynamics in the Murcia case

• Well differentiated biosphere, economic, institutional and urban holons

• Poor differentiation level at the policy, governance and value holons

• Low subordination level of the economy and institutional holons by the upper holons implies a low cooperation level down stream

• Critical situation at territory, biosphere and physiosphere holons

• Certain degree of alienation of the knowledge holon from holarchy dynamic

• Poor sustenance from institutional, policy and knowledge holons to the development of governance, value and personal development holons

Chapter four: is something out there?

The analysis reveals the guiding systemic (cybernetic?)

principle of the holarchy

It reveals its structuring pattern

The reality standard system models address


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities

But from a holarchical view point all system

are already each other embeded

M1. TERRIT ORYOCUPATION

M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupati on model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence


competitivityqual ification


avai lability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupation model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupati on model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupati on model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




avai lability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities


M2. WATER

M3.URBANIZATION


ENTERPRENEURSHIP


M6-2.ENTERPRISES

M6-1.COMPETITIVITY



urbanization

ocupati on model

externalities

land uses


framework knowledge



confidence




availability

demand

externalities

externalities

externalities

Deep systemic realm

The reality a holarchical model addresses

Many thanks

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