Title
Development of a sustainability policy model for promoting cleaner production: A knowledge integration approach
Author
Shin, D.
Curits, M.
Huisingh, D.
Zwetsloot, G.I.
TNO Kwaliteit van Leven
Publication year
2008
Abstract
This paper is based upon the understanding that fundamental disciplines of human knowledge such as chemistry, ecology, sociology, geology, economics, engineering or politics, cannot, by themselves, provide the sufficient and necessary solutions to complex problems of sustainability. The paper, therefore, presents an integrated knowledge approach to sustainability policy on industry with the understanding that the essence of such an approach is to enable and support stewardship for building a sustainable society by transcending the conflicts between the paradigm of economics and the paradigm of ecology. This is done by testing the complementarities of three functional modes of knowledge (contextual, technological, and reconciliatory) in actuating the policy science of sustainability. This is based upon an analysis of surveys on CP implementation motives, CP technologies and CP policies. The paper colludes with the finding that even when provided with impressive amounts of data, information and supportive opinion on specific sustainability issues, a society that is not sufficiently cognizant of the necessary knowledge synthesis processes will be unlikely to gain momentum in moving forward in the development, implementation and on-going support of industrial sustainability policy.
Subject
Healthy for Life
Workplace
Healthy Living
Veilig en Gezond Werken
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TNO identifier
462122
Source
Journal of cleaner production, 16, 1823-1837
Document type
article