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Report on Recent Reports #4, Winter 2022-2023
Polycrisis: Probable; Remedies: Possible A wide variety of organizations and individuals have recently warned of multiple global crises. Some have used the term “polycrisis,” defined by the Cascade Institute...
Development, Disasters, Energy, Environment, Risks, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Development Goals
Book Review – Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 3 (p. 164-174) and is available here: Global Systems Change: Six Linked Perspectives! (October 2017) Introduction Change is...
Book Review: An Introduction to Ecological Economics
As we rush headlong into the Anthropocene age, when humans dominate and disrupt the earth and its natural systems, governance of evolution becomes increasingly imperative. “Sustainable development” of some sort...
Book Review: Come On! A Report to the Club of Rome: New Frontiers
The full Review has been published in Cadmus Journal Vol. 3, Issue 4 and is available here: Book Review of Come On! (May 2018) Introduction Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population...
Book Review: The Art of Leading Collectively
Conflicts, misunderstandings, failures, and hidden agendas are part of the journey, she warns, and sustainability is not one single issue, but a complex of issues. But “collective leadership for sustainability...
COVID-19 – What Experts Expect & Propose
Published 1 Aug, 2020. 1st update 11 Sept, 2020. 2nd Update 10 Oct,2020. Download as PDF here The COVID-19 pandemic has already changed our world and is still underway with...
Our Common Agenda: Review of Five UN75 Reports
Reviewed Reports: Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary General (UN, Sept 2021, 84p)Our Future Agenda: A Vision and Plan for Next and Future Generations (UN, Sept 2021, 54p)Shaping Our Future...
Report on Global Reports, 2020-2021: The Whale and the Minnows
Global Sustainability Reports As the COVID-19 pandemic recedes in some countries, while spreading in others, vaccines are becoming available, although distribution is still problematic in many locations. Reports on COVID...
Report on Recent Reports – #2, Summer 2022
Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals Advancing the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals requires evidence-based information and advocacy that is widely disseminated and cited. Transdisciplinary approaches are especially required, exemplified...
Report on Recent Reports – Spring 2022
Reporting on a Fragile World Widely appreciated, high-quality, evidence-based information and advocacy is needed to advance the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals--especially in light of the dual global setbacks...
RRR3: Report on Recent Reports, Fall 2022
INTRODUCTION: Multiple Crises, Multiple Solutions. The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report (3.1) provides thorough discussion of multiple crises and “the new uncertainty complex,” as well as fresh insights on how...
Scientists Reporting: Top 25 Recent Online Reports on the Global Environmental Emergency
The information revolution in recent decades has produced floods of knowledge, opinion, disinformation, and entertainments in many new formats. Who should we consider for evidence-based thinking about the complex...