Inductive Modelling of Vulnerable Sustainability Systems

Philippe Woloszyn (1)

1 ESO - Espaces et Sociétés

Within the context of globalisation, managing territorial resources means overcoming the following problems: difficulty in implementing integrated management processes at various organisation levels; conflicting uses; unadapted decision systems, assymetric information and uneven operative processes in each dimension of sustainable development. To illustrate and overpass those difficulties in a territorial level, we propose to introduce an analogical induction-model to describe both vulnerability situations and associated resilience procedures. The construction of this model is founded on a truly integrated approach, combining the economic, social-cultural, and ecological aspects of territorial vulnerability. Constituted by three passive components as potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation, this approach assumes that economics are a social extension of a environmental energy system. So we claim that social and ecological pillars could be defined as subsystems of a global open inductive sustainability system which considers feedbacks as evolution sources. An applicative illustration of this model will then be presented, through a case study describing 2012's American severe drought event.

Mots clés: Vulnerability; Resilience; Inductive Model; Sustainable Development; Socio-Ecological Transition

Domaines: Environnement et Société; Ingénierie de l'environnement; Sciences de l'environnement

Philippe Woloszyn. Inductive Modelling of Vulnerable Sustainability Systems. Journal of Service Science and Management, 2015, 08, pp.598 - 611. ⟨10.4236/jssm.2015.84060⟩. ⟨hal-01535836⟩