Turning Up the Heat: Corporate Legal Accountability for Climate Change
Strategic litigation encourages corporate accountability for climate change and broader corporate accountability movements when governments have repeatedly failed to take steps to adequately combat climate change. Climate lawsuits against companies are the result of increased collaboration between concerned individual ...
Posted on 29/08/24
Conceptualizing the Circular Economy (Revisited): An Analysis of 221 Definitions
Circular economy (CE) is based on reduction, reuse and recycling, regardless of whether it is conceptualized as a 3R framework covering the 3R dimensions of reduction, reuse, recycling, as a 4R framework that considers the 4R dimensions of reduction, reuse, recycling, recovery, or as an x-R framework that includes 4R. ...
Posted on 22/08/24
Deliberation – Getting Policy-Making Out From Behind Closed Doors
Governments commonly use deliberation as a part of the policy-making process, but it is usually conducted internally and behind closed doors, thereby excluding the public. However, efforts to involve the public in the deliberative stage are quite rare and, for the most part, governments do not have a reliable methodol ...
Posted on 25/07/24
Adaptation of the Building Sector to Climate Change: 10 Principles for Effective Action
We are witnessing unprecedented climate change due to the rapidly increasing concentration of CO₂ in the atmosphere. Climate change is having severe consequences for communities that are designed for steady climatic conditions – not for the predicted climate extremes. Data collected over the recent decades shows that ...
Posted on 18/07/24
Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY): Modeling Inequality and Use of Resources in the Collapse or Sustainability of Societies
There is widespread concern that current trends in resource use are unsustainable. The over-exploitation and depletion of nature and natural resources and the strong economic stratification of society into the rich elites and the poor commoners are evident in all historical societal collapses, either of which can inde ...
Posted on 17/07/24
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