An integrated approach to SED

 
The conclusions of an article on social economic development (SED) that reminds one of guidance from the Universal House of Justice regarding the requirements of any viable plan:

Success will depend on the manner in which lines of action are integrated and on the attitude of learning that is adopted.

- 9 January 2001, §14

An Integrated Approach to Managing Change

Discussion and Conclusions

One of the greatest challenges the world community is facing in this century is the interdependence among the critical factors generated by globalization. Since equilibrium between the reasons for economic development and environmental sustainability must be found, an integrated approach is mandatory for the implementation of efficient long-term governance policies. Reaching a common consensus on the value of sustainable development within the international community is the crucial factor for coordination among states.

General consensus about values must be accompanied with fully consistent policies with the requirements imposed by integrated approach: solutions flexible to the external environment, shared responsibility among policy makers, attention to the relations among the players involved and the use of different levels of analysis. All these requirements must be met because the lack of even only one of them could compromise the entire policy implementation and the capacity of this kind of solutions to react to change.

The way to manage global governance in 2020 and beyond should be a new approach to present and future issues that take into consideration the integration of all the variables related. The study cases show that there are more aspects to consider at the same time: (1) different sectors (economic, social and environmental), (2) different levels (from global to local), and (3) different perspectives (macro and micro). A multi-sector/level/perspective integrated approach is strongly needed.

In this paper, integrated approach has been demonstrated to be applicable to a great variety of situations. Future research studies should be aimed to promote, in all the fields, this approach in order to strongly increase our ability to manage the complexity of changing systems.

Authors: Valeria Andreoni1, Stefano Bisogni, Gabriele Buson, Otello Campanelli, Brunella Cozzo, Marco Duriavig, Yuri Kato, Hirokazu Kubo, Roberta Sanasi, Kodai Tateno and Akira Watanabe

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