Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities
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Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is…
Image credit: Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash In a world of worsening climate disruptions and growing economic inequities, what is…
Editor’s Note: In 2015, a study developed nine indicators for planetary health, and corresponding nine threshold or boundaries.
“O colapso climático global já começou”, António Guterres, Secretário-Geral das Nações Unidas (setembro 2023) A temperatura…
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Scientists find we are “well outside the safe operating space for humanity” in a new study meant to assess the health of our…
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Author: Maya Cosentino is a postgraduate Global Health Policy student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHT…
In Growth for Good, Alessio Terzi makes the case that economic growth can be harnessed in the fight against climate change.
Introduction A title that seems to carry conspiratorial overtones (some might conclude). Well, as my esteemed readers know by…
(Photo: Lilly_M/CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons) In response to this proposition I argue simply, yes. We should engage in…
Crise ambiental e climática e decrescimento demográfico no século XXI, artigo de José Eustáquio Diniz Alves O fato é que a…
As the world focuses its attention on COP-27 the question of what role science and researchers should play in driving the…
As the world focuses its attention on COP-27 the question of what role science and researchers should play in driving the…
Hours after being born, oysters are already working to form their protective, chalk-layered shells. Drawing calcium and…
Hours after being born, oysters are already working to form their protective, chalk-layered shells. Drawing calcium and…
The author's imaginative fictional intro opens the way for better understanding how humanity has pushed past planetary…
Biodiversity receives less attention than climate although the collapse of the planet's biomass is as worrying as climate change.
Biodiversity. When you hear this word, what do you picture? Iconic animals like African elephants, gray wolves and humpback…
by RobertoIn a priorposton diazotrophs, I mentioned my plans to write a "Diazomania" series in the same spirit as our…
A COP26, os desastres climáticos e os 50 anos do livro Limites do Crescimento, artigo de José Eustáquio Diniz Alves “A Terra é…
Cambio climático, agotamiento de la capa de ozono, deforestación, acidificación de los océanos, pérdida de biodiversidad, ciclo…
We are outside the boundary.
Nitrogen (N) is an essential element for all life forms. It acts as the building blocks of biomolecules including proteins and…
Also published as a BMJ editorial here. Wealthy nations must do much more, much faster Lukoye Atwoli, editor in chief, East…
Lukoye Atwoli, editor in chief, East African Medical Journal; Abdullah H. Baqui, editor in chief, Journal of Health, Population…
Hunger is a growing problem worldwide. Conflict, climate change and COVID-19 continue to threaten food security. In 2019, an…
A new study analyzing how food systems contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions has found they are responsible one third…
by Ryan Reihart (University of Dayton) The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea In a…
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Lately, you may have heard someone say that we have reached a “tipping point.” This year alone, with the economic downturn…
O Brasil está parecendo um barco à deriva na tempestade, que lança constantes pedidos de socorro, mas a guarda costeira finge não…
Planetare Grenzen sind eines der einflussreichsten Konzepte im heutigen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs. Die zwei Hauptpublikationen des…
Randall AmsterMural at 510 West Broadway, Hwy. 56, downtown Okemah, Oklahoma, depicting Woody Guthrie and Okfuskee County…
Im Diskurs über Wachstum, Klimapolitik und Nachhaltigkeit stehen sich die Positionen „Green Growth“ und „Degrowth“ diametral…
Um die Klimakrise und ihre Ursachen wirklich zu bekämpfen, müssen die derzeitige Wirtschaftsweise grundlegender hinterfragt und…
Simple household recycling isn't enough – only systematically decoupling the economy from resource use can save the planet.
This is an excerpt from a submission to the AGU Grand Challenges Centennial Collection that has been edited for length and…
Edward FullbrookIt is because humanity has engaged with today’s Economics 101 fantasy – that the connection between the…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons licence. Read the original article. In the search…
A century ago, the Winnipeg General Strike shut down what was then Canada's third-largest city. Today, the strike is usually…
Concern over plastic pollution has hit the headlines over the past couple of years, but according to some researchers it is one…
If we fail to consider river systems as a whole, it could cause serious environmental problems in the future.
The 20th century was dominated by an analog, linear and fossil economy, but we are about to shift to an economy that is digital…
Tweet This article, by Michel Pimbert and Colin Anderson (Centre for Agroecology Water and Resilience, Coventry University) was…
The potential role of the planetary boundary for biosphere integrity The planetary boundary framework was originally developed…
Introduction The recent publication of the UN Secretary-General’s Report on ‘Gaps in International Environmental Law’ comes at…
Tweet Kletr/Shutterstock.com Michel Pimbert, Coventry University and Colin Anderson, Coventry…
A story about indigenous people protecting biodiversity, Jon Waterhouse, an Indigenous Peoples Scholar at OHSU, was quoted as…
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A broader understanding of the interconnectedness of things in a dynamic biosphere where a combustion powered technosphere is…
1. Einleitung Der Eingriff des Menschen in die Umwelt hat Ausmaße erreicht, die schwer vorstellbar sind – quantitative Abschätzun…
The time is ripe for a movement to replace flawed mainstream economics...but what must it do to succeed?
Knowing that we have the power to influence global climate is enormously important when trying to imagine what our climate…
Despite covering 71 percent of the earth, oceans account for a fraction of the world’s production of animal-source food…
Sam Harris talks with David Deutsch about how modern people are already living like astronauts.Read More
At the COP 21 climate change convention in Paris at the end of 2015, leaders from 194 nations agreed to pursue actions that…
Here are some surprising facts about humans’ effect on planet Earth. We have made enough concrete to create an exact replica of…
Here are some surprising facts about humans’ effect on planet Earth. We have made enough concrete to create an exact replica of…
By Prof Ralph E H Sims, Massey University, Palmerston…
You can't solve a problem until you understand it. When it comes to climate change, on a fundamental level we don't really…
An international team of researchers has concluded that biodiversity loss has become so severe and widespread that it could…
Mohi looks up at her mother. Confused. Afraid. Mother had always said that she had to keep her filtration veil on when they…
Levels of global biodiversity loss are found to be high enough that they could affect ecosystems' ability to support human…
Edo, as Toyko was known from 1603-1868, can offer useful lessons for modern cities.
The existing economy is already environmentally unsustainable. It is utterly implausible to think we can “decouple” economic…
The broad scope of the issue makes it hard to determine what to measure, argues Cory Searcy. BMW is the world’s most…
Most conservatives love a balanced budget, with one notable exception: Our natural capital budget. If the Earth is a business…
Professor Klaus Schwab argues convincingly we are on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the focus for discussions…
Global environment and resource security is probably the most widely recognized challenge facing the world today. In fact, for…
Last summer, Carbon Brief delved into the canon of published climate papers to discover which were the most influential, most…
A sustainable future is not only possible, but will be better to live in. But it's going to require some radical change.It's…
Ecological crises may be piling up in a seemingly hopeless cascade, but Swedish scientist Johan Rockström says the next few…
Environment Photo credit: Australian rain forest. Markus Gann /Shutterstock Ian…
Da “Scientific American”. Traduzione di MRDi Mark FischettiCinque anni fa, un imponente gruppo internazionale di scienziati ha…
Conservationists tend to spend their time worrying about protecting forests, catching poachers or keeping carbon out of the…
Plants and…
An asteroid helped wipe out the dinosaurs. Are we now the catastrophic agent? CREDIT…
We need an integrated approach, one that reconnects human development with the biosphere.
By Science for Environment Policy Civilisation has crossed four of nine 'planetary boundaries', increasing the risk of…
Deux autres sélections parmi mes lectures des derniers mois: – pollution marine au plastique, ou comment estimer la quantité de…
Two more picks from what I’ve read over the past couple of months: – marine plastic pollution, or how much plastic waste…
People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of…
Four of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ have now been breached as a result of human activity and not natural variability, says a…
by Robert…
A new high-profile paper reports that 4 of 9 planetary boundaries have been crossed as a result of human activity. The…
Environment Photo credit: Humans have ignored the signs. Thomas Hawk, CC BY-NC The Earth’s climate has…
In 2009, a team of researchers, led by Jonah Rockstrom from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, identified nine…
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” – Albert…
In 2013 I led research that critiqued the ‘Planetary Boundaries‘ concept. Worrying about global tipping points distracts from…
An international team of researchers says climate change, the loss of biosphere integrity, land-system change, and altered…
As the world’s policymakers and business leaders converge in Davos, Switzerland for tomorrow’s opening of the World Economic…
As the world’s policymakers and business leaders converge in Davos, Switzerland for tomorrow’s opening of the World Economic…
As the world’s policymakers and business leaders converge in Davos, Switzerland for tomorrow’s opening of the World Economic…
Human activity dangerously compromises four of the nine systems that are key to maintaining the stability of Earth, report…
The Earth's climate has always changed. All species eventually become extinct. But a new study has brought into sharp relief…
A study shows we have surpassed at least four of the nine "planetary boundaries," deforestation, extinction rate, atmospheric…
This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humans are "ea…