Feedback-Guided Analysis as an Approach to Managing Sustainability in ASEAN Countries

• Main Authors: Cuyegkeng, Ma. Assunta C, Gotangco-Gonzales, Charlotte Kendra Z
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2020
• Subjects: cultural adaptation template; feedback-guided analysis; ASEAN science and environmental policies; ASEAN cultural paradigms; systems-thinking; Leadership Studies; Sustainability; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/leadership-and-strategy-faculty-pubs/17; https://ajol.ateneo.edu/jmgs/articles/226/2506
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Innovation has been at the center of most science policies of the ASEAN countries; driven as they are by a greater concern for the competitive advantages that can come from science and technology. Related to these policies; although often treated separately; are policies on the environment and environmental education. What is missing; however; is a more comprehensive view of how both science and environmental policies influence and are influenced by the culture and well-being of the people in a particular country. This study attempts to fill in the blanks through feedback-guided analysis; particularly by using a cultural adaptation template introduced by Newell and Proust (2017b). It studies four subsystems and seven links; and shows how ASEAN science and environment policies; cultural paradigms; the state of ecosystems; and human health and well-being affect each other directly or indirectly. The cultural adaptation template indicates the need for a systems-thinking approach in managing innovation or the implementation of policy to ensure that well-meaning initiatives may not lead to unintended consequences.