CAPACITY TO MEASURE PROGRESS TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Virtual seminar on Feb 12 featuring Carrie Exton (OECD), Eli Fenichel (Yale / OSTP), Mary Ruckelshaus (NatCap Project) & Alicia Harley (Harvard).

Registration & additional information available here:
www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb...

" #Sustainability of Animal-Sourced #Foods and Plant-Based Alternatives" is a new #PNAS Special Feature edited by Martin Qaim, Rodolphe Barrangou, & Pamela Ronald (www.pnas.org/topic/561). It explores technical, environmental, nutritional, health, and socioeconomic dimensions of the question.🧪

Not to mention a rosette, to wear wherever you like to wear such things...

"Complex adaptive systems science in the era of global #sustainability crisis" by An etal (2024; Geography & Sustainability. doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...) is a useful review of #CAS applications, especially in #land-use. But why no attention to CAS approaches to understanding #innovation processes?

How does human migration affect the prospects for sustainable development?  A new PNAS Special Feature explores the relation of migration flows to well-being, inequality, environment & social capital: www.pnas.org/topic/554 . More in my LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

How to bring about the #transformations called for at #COP28 is the subject of my new paper with Frank Geels & Florian Kern on "#Sustainability transitions in consumption-production systems." PNAS 120(47), e2310070120 (2023) www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... . More here: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...

Manufactured capital is a primary determinant of #sustainable development, with both positive and negative impacts on #wellbeing. Just where it is and how it's constituted matter for #Sustainability but are poorly documented. Frantz et al. point the way forward with an this elegant study.

I learned a lot working with IOW's Florian Kern on "Sustainability Transitions in Consumption-Production Systems." Results (open access) here: www.pnas.org/topic/551. Next steps? Getting better at doing long term evaluations of whether proposed innovations will actually promote sustainability.

Research frontiers for "Sustainability Transitions in Consumption-Production Systems" are explored in a new PNAS Special Feature that I co-edited with Frank Geels and Florian Kern. Available here: www.pnas.org/topic/551, (Open Access!). My comments on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/willia...