No more business as usual
Rethinking economic value for a post-Covid world. A national conversation has begun which is alarming, yet also familiar. It talks about costs and trade-offs, losses and accounts.…
Potential use of planetary boundary thinking in the UK
The planetary boundary (PB) concept is based on a set of nine boundaries for critical processes that regulate the functioning of the earth’s ecosystems at a global…
The problem of using examples to understand Action Experiment
By Martin Sandbrook, Learning programmes Director When I am teaching people about action experiment, they understandably ask me for examples. When I respond, I often sense that…
Submission to Labour Party consultation on Industrial Strategy
Could a modern industrial strategy provide a vehicle to help achieve the economic transformation needed to address profound eco-system and social challenges? The Institute has submitted evidence…
Post-truth’ 1 : Spiritual leaders should not be too hasty in buying into ‘post-truth’ – it’s toxic
By Dr Jenneth Parker FSI Research Director Some spiritual leaders seem to be ready to embrace ‘post-truth’ as an opportunity to awaken people to ‘deeper truths’ of…
Graceful Collapse – Part 3 : Dynamic Reconfigurability and Resilience in Complex Systems
By Douglas Owen FSI In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series I have looked at the potential contribution of traditional ‘predict and withstand’ defences…
Graceful Collapse – Part 2: Common Mode Failure and Resilient Performance in Complex Systems
By Douglas Owen FSI In Part 1 of this blog series I looked at the contribution of traditional ‘predict and withstand’ defences in technical systems on their potential…
Graceful Collapse – Part 1: Traditional Defences and Resilience in Complex Systems
By Douglas Owen FSI In this blog I want to explore whether the traditional approaches we use to defend systems from harm can contribute to resilient performance…
Why do we need resilience anyway?
By Douglas Owen FSI To understand why we need systems and societies capable of resilient performance, we first have to understand what the problem is. The problem…
The Smart Hamlet concept proves exciting
Having attended their South West conference, Michael Clinton has written an article for the Housing Learning and Improvement Network (LIN), such was the interest in the Smart…