I will begin by describing the 'growth model of progress' which is implicit to most * Samuel Alexander has been a lecturer at Melbourne Law School and is currently completing his PhD there. Contact: samuelalexander42@gmail.com. 1 Some leading texts in the small but provocative literature of ...
Clockwatchers is a dossier presented in the latest issue of WIP magazine, which explores what the future of labor might look like in the face of climate uncertainty. Clocking in at 32 pages, it contains interviews with Malcolm Harris on the concept of de
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This need not be the case. Computational science can help urban planners and decision-makers to turn this threat into a time-limited opportunity to reduce disaster risk for hundreds of millions of people. John McCloskey Mark Pelling Roberto Gentile Comment14 Sep 2023 Nature Computational Science...
The very idea of sovereignty must be reinvented. In the future, the ultimate sovereign authority must be the ecosystem itself. This was the case in precolonial African societies, where human rule involved constant care that the ecosystem remained in equilibrium. Truly human societies were those tha...
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These small farms are well-suited for self-harvest. The three largest Dutch CSA farms (∼14 ha) deliver their produce in boxes and are located further away from a city. In the study of legitimation in grassroots organisations, CSA in the Netherlands represents a ‘critical case study’ ...
relation to the SDGs, illustrates how the instrumental positioning of health in relation to economics occurs in two directions. First, economic growth is presented as a necessity for health investments. Second, health, and specifically NCDs in this case, are framed in relation to economic growth:...
(seeCost blow outs for Rookwood Weir). The Government has blamed the pandemic, the weather, and supply-chain disruptions for the huge cost overrun. So the economic viability of the project, already questionable according to the project’s business case, is even more in question, but we’ll ...