Korean Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology (한국농림기상학회지)

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Rural Systems Visioneering: Paradigm Shift from Flux Measurement to Sustainability Science

지역시스템 비저니어링: 플럭스 관측에서 지속가능성과학으로의 패러다임 전환

  • Kim, Joon (Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kang, Minseok (National Center for Agro Meteorology) ;
  • Oki, Taikan (Institute of Industriasl Science, University of Tokyo) ;
  • Park, Eun Woo (National Center for Agro Meteorology) ;
  • Ichii, Kazuhito (Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University) ;
  • Indrawati, Yohana Maria (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Cho, Sungsik (Interdisciplinary Program in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Seoul National University) ;
  • Moon, Jihyun (E3 Empower Africa Limited) ;
  • Yoo, Wan Chol (E3 Empower Africa Limited) ;
  • Rhee, Jiyoung (Innovative Technology Energy Centre (iTEC), Nelson-Mandela African Institutition of Science and Technology) ;
  • Rhee, Herb (E3 Empower Africa Limited) ;
  • Njau, Karoli (Office of the Vice Chancellor, Nelson-Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology) ;
  • Ahn, Sunghoon (Innovative Technology Energy Centre (iTEC), Nelson-Mandela African Institutition of Science and Technology)
  • Received : 2018.03.27
  • Accepted : 2018.03.29
  • Published : 2018.03.30
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Abstract

Sustainability science is an emerging transdisciplinary research which necessitates not only the communication and collaboration of scientists, practitioners and stakeholders from different disciplines and interests, but also the paradigm shift from deterministic and reductionist approaches to the old basic. Ecological-societal systems (ESS) are co-evolving complex systems having many interacting parts (or agents) whose random interactions at local scale give rise to spontaneous emerging order at global scale (i.e., self-organization). Here, the flows of energy, matter and information between the systems and their surroundings play a key role. We introduce a conceptual framework for such continually morphing dynamical systems, i.e. self-organizing hierarchical open systems (SOHOs). To understand the structure and functionality of SOHOs, we revisit the two fundamental laws of physics. Re-interpretation of these principles helps understand the destiny and better path toward sustainability, and how to reconcile ecosystem integrity with societal vision and value. We then integrate the so-called visioneering (V) framework with that of SOHOs as feedback/feedforward loops so that 'a nudged self-organization' may guide systems' agents to work together toward sustainable ESS. Finally, example is given with newly endorsed Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Lab (i.e., 'Rural systems visioneering') by Future Earth, which is now underway in rural villages in Tanzania.

지속가능성과학은 다양한 학문 배경과 관심을 가진 과학자, 전문직 종사자 및 이해당사자들 간의 소통과 협력뿐 아니라 결정론적 환원주의적 접근에서 오래전 기본으로의 패러다임 전환이 요구되는 떠오르는 초학문적 연구다. 생태-사회시스템은 많은 구성성분(또는 행위자)들로 이루어져 이들의 국지 규모의 무작위 상호작용이 자연스럽게 시스템 전체 규모의 질서를 만들어내는 공진화하는 복잡계다. 여기서, 시스템과 주변환경 간의 에너지와 물질과 정보의 흐름이 중요한 역할을 한다. 본 통신에서는 이렇게 계속 변화하는 역동적 시스템, 즉 '자기-조직화하는 계층구조의 열린 시스템(SOHOs)'의 개념적 틀을 소개한다. 먼저 SOHOs의 구조와 기능성을 이해하기 위해 물리학의 두 기본 법칙을 다시 논의한다. 두 법칙의 재해석을 통해 시스템의 운명과 지속가능성을 향한 보다 나은 경로, 또한 생태계의 온전함과 사회의 비전/가치 추구를 어떻게 조화시킬 것인가에 대한 이해를 돕고자한다. 그 다음에 소위 '비저니어링(V)'이라는 틀을 되먹임/전방급전(feedback/feedforward) 루프로 SOHOs 틀에 통합시켜서, '슬쩍 찌르는(nudged) 자기-조직화'가 시스템을 구성하는 행위자들이 합력하여 지속가능한 생태-사회 시스템을 이루어 가도록 유도한다. 마지막으로, SOHOs-V의 적용사례로서, 현재 탄자니아의 농촌마을에서 진행되고 있는 미래지구의 지속가능발전목표 연구실(SDG Lab)인 '농촌시스템 비저니어링(Rural Systems Visioneering)'을 예로 제시하였다.

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