Methods & Metrics, Models & Modalities

For many, greater investment in “social capital” through the re-invigoration of cooperative approaches is a necessity. Do current policies and practices support such an approach, given contemporary capitalism’s emphasis on the optimization of individual wealth?

There is arguably a global consensus on the need for a paradigm shift in our understanding of “sustainability” in development economics and the futility of expecting different outcomes for people and planet from more of the same.

Today’s global economy is the result of several centuries of evolution, elevating, over time, the role of “capital” and the primacy of profit maximization to assure returns to shareholders and ever-widening disparities between the salaries of CEOs and employees.

Ours is not the first generations to realise that not all boats rise with dissident voices raised. Even with corroboration from informed analyses of environmental, security and societal impacts, the disinterested do not change.

But the urgent need for action at scale to mitigate and adapt to climate change has prompted re-examination of critical failures in current “institutions” and the tabling of blueprints for change.

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