Cleaner Production (CP) can be a necessary condition for societies to establish and maintain 
sustainable production systems. Based upon the significant challenges for making progress 
toward sustainability and the currently stagnated situation of CP implementation, this thesis 
author questioned, ‘What types of governmental policies are adequate for facilitating the 
continuous implementation of CP?. In answer, the author developed and presents an 
evolutionary sustainability policy model for designing and implementing CP. 

 

In order to progress to that stage, the author hypothesized that the behavioural pattern of firms 
evolves through four developmental stages of CP implementation: the compulsory motive, the 
financial motive, the communal motive, and the pioneering motive (Hypothesis 1). He further 
hypothesized that links among three types of knowledge – contextual, technological, and 
reconciliatory – (This author called it ‘Triangular Knowledge Cycle’ in Figure A.) play crucial 
roles as driving forces for upgrading the current level of CP implementation (Hypothesis 3, See 
Figure A).Mr. Dongwon Shin is currently on the senior staff of Korean Ministry of Environment (KMOE). 
He also works for Department of Natural Resources Science, McGill University Montreal as 
Adjunct Professor, where developing new Master’s degree program in environmental 
assessment from August 2005, particularly in strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and 
sustainability appraisal (SA) as an integrated approach. He had been the Senior Programme 
Officer of UNEP/Economics and Trade (Geneva) from 2002 to 2005. He coordinated four 
thematic multi-institutional sustainability policy research projects in an integrated approach in 
cooperation with UNEP, relevant policy institutions worldwide, and KMOE. He was deeply 
involved in starting “UNEP Network of Institutions for Sustainable Development” (NISD), the 
first meeting of which was held on March 2004, Jeju Island, South Korea