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Author Jennifer Mills reflects on how the idea of breath ties together the three crises of 2020: the climate crisis, racial injustice and the pandemic. She compares Australia’s ‘gas-led recovery’ plan to Europe’s willingness to embrace solutions to the climate emergency as part of its economic recovery This interview with Jennifer Mills is based on

Publication date: April 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 182 Author(s): Helmut Haberl, Martin Schmid, Willi Haas, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Henrike Rau, Verena Winiwarter

MPs’ unfounded claims about the US Capitol attack and Covid treatments pale next to the granddaddy of misinformation Nasa announced this week that 2020 – a year which included a La Niña event normally associated with lower temperatures – was the hottest year on record. It was also the week in which the Morrison government

Ever since 1969, people have asked themselves why if humans can land on the moon, can’t they solve pressing problems here on Earth, such as poverty, dementia and climate change. Mariana Mazzucato offers an answer: if only governments would apply the mission-driven methods of the Apollo project, they could. Mission Economy, the new book from

Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years Analysis: why are ocean warming records being broken year after year? The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported. More than 90% of

Publication date: April 2021 Source: Ecological Economics, Volume 182 Author(s): Onil Banerjee, Martin Cicowiez, Renato Vargas, Carl Obst, Javier Rojas Cala, Andrés Camilo Alvarez-Espinosa, Sioux Melo, Leidy Riveros, Germán Romero, Diego Sáenz Meneses

To date, methods for assessing community resilience have focused predominantly on disaster recovery. Those that do focus on broader social-ecological and psychological contexts tend to be qualitative and have not been validated at the community scale. This situation reveals a need for quantitative measurement tools for assessing community resilience to slow-moving change such as rural