Tag: environment

• Nature on the balance sheet …

  “Putting nature on the balance sheet: how to account for the ecological costs of our actions” Economists should consider forests and wetlands as well as factories and farms. A book review of “On Natural Capital: The Value of the World Around Us“, Partha Dasgupta (2025) On Natural Capital recaps the roaring economic advances of the past 75…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-24

  #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom

  #DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, environment, nature, Sustainability

• Becoming Nature Positive

  “Becoming Nature Positive: Transitioning to a Safe and Just Future “, an open access book from the Nature Positive Initiative Becoming Nature Positive: Transitioning to a Safe and Just Futureis a collaborative effort from a wide range of authors, covering many sectors of society. ‘Nature Positive’ is a recently agreed upon global goal to “halt and…

  walterstiers

  2025-11-24

  #stakeholder economy, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, biodiversity, environment, nature, Sustainability

• End GDP mania

  “End GDP mania: how the world should really measure prosperity” Last week’s United Nations General Assembly, held in New York City, generated no shortage of headlines. But one notable policy initiative from the world body was not discussed by world leaders when it should have been. UN secretary-general António Guterres has put together a high-level…

  walterstiers

  2025-10-04

  #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy

  #DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #TheInformationLens, climate-change, economics, economy, environment, Sustainability

• Climate Change, A Geoscience Perspective

  Climate Change, A Geoscience Perspective This open access book on climate change assesses past climatic change from a geoscience perspective and directly and effectively addresses common misconceptions on climate and climate change. A geoscience perspective on the multiple causes, rates, and consequences of climate change is essential context to assess modern climate change and our…

  walterstiers

  2025-09-01

  #sense-making, #Wicked, Complexity, Science, Sustainability

  #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, climate, climate-change, environment, philosophy, Science

• Humanity needs a fundamental shift—“a very different civilisation”

  I choose to quote some sentences of the BMJ opinion article Osler’s valediction: how might physicians contribute to the effort to postpone human extinction?This article is written to physicians, but extrapolation to other professions is left to the reader. Historically, physicians have focused on individual patients. The time has come to expand the scope of…

  walterstiers

  2024-03-10

  #sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, #Wicked, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Social-Technical, Sustainability, Uncategorized

  #DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, #Wicked, empathy, environment, health, healthcare, humanity