Why Doughnut Economics could be a better model for local economies

Doughnut Economics is a model to measure progress in an economy by monitoring impacts on the social and planetary boundaries. The Doughnut Economics model is visualized using two concentric circles – the inner circle represents how successfully the economy has fulfilled basic life essentials like water, food, and health, while the outer circle represents how the local economy...

Resilience Science – This changes everything

Resilience science is the latest, and greatest in telling us how the social-ecological system (humans in nature) works, and how humans need to operate to be consistent with the...

Canadian Climate Adaptation Fund

Canada has created a large-scale disaster and mitigation fund in order to reduce the financial impacts to local communities from damage caused by climate change. The Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund...

Risk Pools for Climate-Influenced Disasters

Nineteen African nations have joined together in an effort to prepare for the current and future effects of climate change. They enacted a risk pooling strategy that unlocks funding when climate influenced disasters strike. The member states of...