Just published in Local Environment: Urban sustainability via urban productivity? A conceptual review and framework proposal, by Maria Spiliotopoulou and Mark Roseland. Access it here ABSTRACT This paper offers conceptual and operational insights for more effective and forward-looking local sustainability…
By Dr. Maria Spiliotopoulou, Simon Fraser University, and Dr. Mark Roseland, Arizona State University Abstract In the past three decades, mounting scientific evidence on the planetary condition has been sending a clear message: the xworld needs to be on a…
Repost from the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy By Herman Daly. Published on April 23, 2019 The economic process is not a mechanical analog that can be run forward and backward, nor a circular process that…
Repost from the Global Future Cities Programme. About The SDG Project Assessment Tool (referred to as SDG Tool) is developed by UN-Habitat as an offline, digital and user-friendly instrument to guide City Authorities and Delivery Partners in the development of…
Doughnut Economics can be summarised as an approach that adds the minimum acceptable social boundaries (people’s essential needs) to the maximum possible planetary boundaries (“environmental ceiling” or the Earth’s capacity to carry life). The Amsterdam City Doughnut was launched in…
David Suzuki is a Canadian academic, science broadcaster and environmental activist. David Suzuki. Credit: Stephen Barnett from Darwin, Australia, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Repost from the David Suzuki Foundation. Published on January 5, 2021. The following is…
As a signatory of the Scientists’ Warning since 2017, I am sharing this article to raise awareness on the interconnected issues of population, consumption, and growth economy that impact our planet today – in some cases (e.g. species extinction) irreversibly….
