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Fig. 2 The “ideation engine”
local to global. In order to tackle all these aspects, it is necessary to mobilize many
disciplines around a given object of analysis. It is through this “interdisciplinarity
in practice” (Hufty 2011) that this approach contributes to a better understanding of
multiple issues related to sustainable development and encourages the emergence of
new solutions. This is what we call the “Ideation Engine” (Fig. 2).
2.1 Systems Interactions
The EDS-IA is based on the assumption that a common understanding of the meaning
of sustainable development is a prerequisite to improve the effectiveness of any
collective effort. It is well known that, according to the definition of the WCED
report, sustainable development contains within it two key concepts:
• the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, and
• the idea of limitations (WCED 1987).
EDS-IA come back on these concepts from the most recent frameworks for
research and action in the field of sustainable development and integrates them in a
conceptual diagram. Those frameworks are:
L. Diaz and A. Potvin
Fig. 2 The “ideation engine”
local to global. In order to tackle all these aspects, it is necessary to mobilize many
disciplines around a given object of analysis. It is through this “interdisciplinarity
in practice” (Hufty 2011) that this approach contributes to a better understanding of
multiple issues related to sustainable development and encourages the emergence of
new solutions. This is what we call the “Ideation Engine” (Fig. 2).
2.1 Systems Interactions
The EDS-IA is based on the assumption that a common understanding of the meaning
of sustainable development is a prerequisite to improve the effectiveness of any
collective effort. It is well known that, according to the definition of the WCED
report, sustainable development contains within it two key concepts:
• the concept of ‘needs’, in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor, and
• the idea of limitations (WCED 1987).
EDS-IA come back on these concepts from the most recent frameworks for
research and action in the field of sustainable development and integrates them in a
conceptual diagram. Those frameworks are: