Research

Excerpt: "This report adds to the knowledge base by building on prior work about the Gulf’s economic value and going beyond just updating estimates by expanding the scope of what’s being estimated to include non-market as well as market-based values and drawing out implications for decision making...

Excerpt: "Adopting APCNF led to greater crop diversity, similar or higher yields, higher incomes for farmers, lower input costs, improved local economies, improved social networks, improved health, and reduced health costs. Overall, APCNF gave highly positive returns on public investment, suggesting...

Prepared by Soil 4 Climate

From the publication: “Complexity science, also called complex systems science, studies how a large collection of components - locally interacting with each other at the small scales - can spontaneously self-organize to exhibit non-trivial global structures and behaviors at larger scales, often...

From the study: "New research from S&P Global Sustainable1 finds that 85% of the world’s largest companies that make up S&P Global 1200 have a significant dependency on nature across their direct operations.

The analysis also finds that 46% of companies in that universe have at least one asset...

The authors of this research have done a great service to the field in identifying core elements of regenerative business models and elaborating a coherent framework that makes them distinct. Demonstrating the evolution of this field from sustainable, to circular, to regenerative, each facet is...

A massive report led by mining giant BHP in its Beenup site in southwest Australia. A massive, multiparty / stakeholder effort including the discussions and sharing of the accounting approach and framework as well as much of the methodology. The temporal scenarios are fascinating and will be a...

This page wraps together Bill Sharpe's, Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope (2020, second edition) with a number of commentaries, providing an entry point to the Three Horizons model, its concepts, and application. 

Political upheaval and social turmoil have peeled back the glitzy layers of capitalism to reveal an uncomfortable truth: historically, businesses have sourced materials from remote corners of the globe and moved millions of people and tons of cargo around the clock—all in the name of profit. Yet...

Departing from the roots of modern political and security thinking, author Nayef Al-Rodhan weaves together emerging understandings in human behavior and neurobiology, international relations to present a series analytic frames based on them which he applies to international relations in his Ocean...