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Brian EddySDi - Level II - Ottawa

October 9, 2003

Sustainable Development, Spiral Dynamics, and

Spatial Data:A ‘3i’ Approach to SD.

Brian EddyPhd Candidate

Dept. of Geography and Environmental StudiesCarleton University


October 9, 2003

Presentation Format

❚ The Three SD’s❙ What they are, and What they do

❚ The Three I’s❙ The Integral Approach

❚ Integral Geography❙ Space, Place and Perspectives

❚ Questions and Discussion


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The Three SDs

❚ Sustainable Development (SDv)❙ A New World Paradigm

❚ Spiral Dynamics (SDy)❙ A Model of Human

Values/Development❚ Spatial Data (SDa)

❙ A Basis for Information Integration❚ How the three mutually interact

SDv

SDy SDa


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Sustainable Development (SDv)

❚ What it is:❙ A way to ensure health, integrity, prosperity, and

well-being - now and into the future for all livingand non-living systems

❙ Applied on personal, domestic, institutional, socialand local to global geographical levels

❚ What it does:❙ Compels people and institutions to consider their

needs and actions in significantly broader framesof reference

❙ A basis for critically evaluating human activities inthe world


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❚ Need to consider specific approaches, indifferent operational contexts:❙ How we ‘think’ and what we ‘do’ are related.❙ “Development that meets the needs of the

present without sacrificing the ability for futuregenerations to meet their own needs”(Brundtland, 1987)

❚ Many conceptual and practicalchallenges❙ Different places, different circumstances - no

‘one-size’ fits all approach❙ Both proactive and reactive forces at work


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❚ Three Pillars (general consensus):❙ Economy, Society and Environment

❚ Two Current Polarities(general pattern):❙ Socio-Economic Focused❙ Environmental Focused❙ Few Frameworks Succeed in Combining

all three (effectively and equally)

Society Economy

Environment


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Spiral Dynamics (SDy)

❚ What it is:❙ A Psycho-Social Model of Human Values❙ A Framework for Evaluating Human-

Environment Life Conditions and Circumstance❚ What it does:

❙ Provides a comprehensive map and taxonomyof human value spaces that can be appliedcross-culturally, and at different nested scales(macro-meso-micro memetics)

❙ Provides a basis for critical analysis to examineunderlying assumptions surrounding optionsand alternatives for change


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Spatial Data (SDa)

❚ What it is:❙ Geographical-based information for integrating

social, cultural, economic, and environmentalinformation

❙ Data about the World and all of its complexities(from local to global scales)

❚ What it does:❙ Provides a basis to situate and integrate many

types of data and knowledge.❙ Allows greater flexibility of analysis of real-world

events, activities, and patterns of influence(beyond single-disciplinary frameworks)


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How the Three SD’s Relate

❚ Sustainable Development (SDv)❙ Setting Goals and Agenda❙ Tells us ‘What’ needs to be done

❚ Spiral Dynamics (SDy)❙ Helps us understand the ‘who’ and ‘why’❙ Helps us understand ‘what next’❙ Meet people ‘IN THEIR OWN PLACE’

❚ Spatial Data (SDa)❙ Provides the data and information base

from which we assess life conditions, and❙ A basis for identifying options, alternatives,

and monitoring at the detail that is needed.

SDv

SDy SDa


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The Three SDI’s

❚ Spiral Dynamics Integral❙ how to ‘frame’ life conditions❙ their underlying causes❙ how conditions are ‘percieved’

❚ Sustainable DevelopmentIndicators❙ What is appropriate for different

locations and contexts❙ What to ‘do next’ (realistically)

❚ Spatial Data Infrastructure❙ tells us about life conditions (it

is primarily ‘sensory’)

Spiral Dynamics

Sustainable Development

Spatial Data

Integral

Indicators

Infrastructure


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The Integral Approach

❚ All Quadrants, All Levels, All Lines, and‘All Locations’ (AQAL3) Framework

❚ Epistemological-Ontological (phil.)❙ (1) what we know and (2) what we see❙ (1) + (2) = WorldViews/vMemes

❚ Three ways of knowing and seeing❙ Eye of Flesh (Sensory-Factual-Inductive)❙ Eye of Mind (Mental-Theoretical-Deductive)❙ Eye of Spirit (Contemplative-Reconciling)

(Ken Wilber, Brief History of Everything)

BA

Ind.

Col.

Ext.Int.

Behaviour“It”

Social “Its”

Cultural“We”

Inention“I”

C

A - AnthroposphereB - BiosphereC - Cosmosphere


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Two Views of Human-Environment Relationships

Involutionary Perspective

(Inverted AQAL)

Individual

Collective

ExteriorInterior

Human

Environment

Evolutionary Perspective(Std. AQAL)

Individual

Collective

ExteriorInterior

Environment

Human


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Many Levels of H-E Relations

Environment

Humans

Planar View

OrganismResponse

Environmental /Life Conditions

Side View

H

G

F

E

D

C

B

A

Depth/Span of Human

Consciousness

Depth/Span of Life Conditions /

‘Span of Concern’

U

T

S

R

Q

P

O

N

Kosmos

Planet

World

National

Regional

Local

Domestic

Individual


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Integral ‘Phanerogam’

Evolution(Ascentionary)

Eros

C-sphere

B-Sphere

A-sphere

AQAL Plane

ProbabilitySpace

Rhizomes as“Life Pathways”

AgapeInvolution

(Descentionary)

AQAL Tensionsas ‘Convolution’

EvolutionaryDevelopment


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Integral Geography Framework1

1 Eddy, B. 2004. Integral Geography: Space, Place and Perspective.World Futures: Journal of General Evolution. 17 p. (In prep.)

Anthroposphere

Biosphere

Atmosphere

Hydrosphere

Lithosphere

Astrosphere

A-sphere

B-sphere

C-sphere

SentientHolons

Non-Sentient Holons

Human

Environment

Life

Matter

Earth

Universe

Sentient andNon-Sentient

Holons

PrimarySphere

HolonicBoundaries

EcosystemComponent

HolonicType

Spectrum of Arts, andPure and Applied Sciences

Arts and Social Sciences

Biology

Meteorology

Hydrology

Geology

Astronomy

Math, PhysicsChemistry

Earth, Planetaryand CosmologicalSciences

LifeSciencesand Medicine

HumanSciences,Arts, andHumanities Integral G

eography

PureSciences


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Geographic Data FrameworksEco-Physical Human-Social


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Integral Places Profiling(‘Unique Conditions’ Profiling)

Levels of Differentiation

Levels of Integration

A+B+Cv

w

x

y

z

B

C

A

Turquoise

Yellow

Green

Orange

Blue

Red

Purple

Beige

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80Relative Proportion (%)

Memetic Profile

Life Conditions/ EcoSystem Profile

Spiral Change/AQAL Tension

Indicators


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v w x y z

iW7 - TurquoiseiW6 - YellowiW - Green5iW4 - OrangeiW3 - BlueiW2 - RediW1 - PurpleiW - Beige0

Global

National

Regional

Local

FrontierTown

LargeUrban

Sub-Urban

Rural-Agri

Small Urban

Global

Informational

Industrial

Agrarian

Horticultural

Hunter/Gatherer

Span of Concern

EconomicBase

Regional Dynamics/Influences

Integral Places Profiling


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SUMMARY

❚ Know ‘what’, ‘why’, ‘how’❚ Know ‘where’ - ?

❙ Requires Spatial Data Infrastuctures❚ Spatial Data Infrastructures:

❙ Provide basis to sense/know about people,places, things and events at all scales ofhuman-planet interaction (regardless ofpolitical, social, geographical location)

❙ Basis to ‘transcend’ ethno-political‘containment’

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