Thinking about how to analyze and help develop a neighbourhood, a district, or an urban community of any size? Here are some ideas based on systems theory. And stay tuned for my next two posts that demonstrate how these concepts…
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…
The position of an initiative on the weak/strong sustainability continuum is a debate that is rooted in economics but is now central to sustainability discourse, pertaining to both research and practice. The weaker-to-stronger sustainability debate is a spectrum between those…
This important research is presented at the pre-print stage: Vigier, M., Ouellet-Plamondon, C. M., Spiliotopoulou, M., Moore, J., & Rees, W. E. To What Extent is Sustainability Addressed at Urban Scale and How Aligned is it with Earth’s Carrying Capacity?….
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…
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…
