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— 16 August 2024 —

Report of the Roundtable on the Human Future 2024

Resilience

The crisis is already here, and will get worse. Its combined scale and impact are so great that few
grasp it. Together, these risks endanger our ability to maintain a civilization, possibly even to survive
as a species. Global solutions are now urgent. To act later will be too late.

Report of the Roundtable on the Human Future 2024

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Oct 10 2024

Applying resilience thinking

from Stockholm Resilience Centre….Simply enhancing the resilience of the existing ecosystem services can entrench and exacerbate inequalities. Important...
Oct 10 2024

Chartbook 325: Wrestling with transition thinking. Or on being “interregnumed” and how to resist it. (Hegemony notes 8)

by Adam Tooze in Chartbook 325…The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying but the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of...
Sep 18 2024

Facing global risks with honest hope

From (ASRA) Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment report Facing global risks with honest hope….Transforming Multidimensional Challenges into Multidimensional...
Sep 12 2024

National resilience guidance: A collaborative approach to building resilience

In National resilience guidance, a paper by FEMA.gov…This Guidance is intended to help all individuals, communities, and organizations understand our nation’s...
Jul 08 2024

The Strategic Foresight Book

by Ben Holt of IFRC Solferino Academy in The Strategic Foresight Book….Strategic foresight is a practical way to explore emerging issues and uncover new options...
Jul 06 2024

Endowing the future

by Civic Square and Dark Matter Labs, Endowing the Future is a chapter in …..The Neighbourhood Public Square seeks to demonstrate regenerative civic...
Jul 06 2024

Going sane in a crazy world

By Richard Heinberg, in Resilience.org….The consequences of our adoption of consumerist, growth-seeking industrialism will ultimately be a crash—hopefully only...
May 22 2024

The case for hope

by NICHOLAS KRISTOF in The New York Times…The truth is that if you had to pick a time to be alive in the past few hundred thousand years of human history, it...
May 21 2024

Community resilience as a metaphor, theory, set of capacities, and strategy for disaster readiness

by Fran H Norris, et al. in Am J or Community Psych…..To build collective resilience, communities must reduce risk and resource inequities, engage local people in...
May 21 2024

This Japanese shop is 1,020 years old. It knows a bit about surviving crises

by Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno in The New York Times….A mochi seller in Kyoto, and many of Japan’s other centuries-old businesses, have endured by putting...