In this post, I briefly explore the concept, principles, and practices of holistic urban productivity or regenerative sustainability as an emerging theory in Sustainable Community Development (SCD) and I introduce a conceptual framework for regenerative urban sustainability. The full paper…
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By Cole Thompson, April 6, 2023. Reposted from The Steady State Herald. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is attracting great attention as working AI systems become accessible to the public. The AI claim is that it can digest the mass of…
New research article I co-authored, just published online by Elsevier’s Sustainable Cities and Society. Abstract Humanity’s demand for resources exceeds annually the Earth’s productive capacity (EPC), defined as the total regenerative and assimilative capacities of our planet. This article asks…
The social dimension of sustainability was not as visible in policy-making as the economic – and partly the environmental – dimensions until about three decades ago. Social capital encompasses collective responsibility, trust, networks, shared knowledge, and social structures, as a…
If you’re like me – torn about whether the whole circular economy fuzz is a good thing or not, especially for the long haul, please read my critical analysis below. The concept of circular economy (CE) is grounded in environmental…
Despite being an old concept for engineering, psychology, and disaster management, the famous natural scientist C.S. Holling introduced ecological and socio-ecological resilience in the early 1970s. He synthesized social and ecological theory to study and enhance adaptive (as opposed to…
