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Jul 3, 2024 | 
nature.com | Xuemei Bennink Bai |Robert Costanza
AbstractUnderstanding the impacts of COVID-19 on citizens from different cities is crucial for urban resilience-building and reducing inequal resilience distribution. However, little research focuses on urban life at the individual level, particularly in second- and third-tier cities. An online survey was therefore conducted to collect data on how COVID-19 affected the cities and urban residents in mainland China.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
nature.com | Natalie Stoeckl |Vanessa M. Adams |Rachel Baird |Robert Costanza |Darla Hatton MacDonald |Elizabeth A. Fulton | +4 more
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean provide numerous ecosystem services that benefit people globally, but many are ‘invisible’ to markets and to some decision makers. A subset of these services — Antarctic tourism, commercial fisheries, and a suite of inter-related regulating services — are conservatively valued at ~US $180 billion annually, highlighting their importance.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
anthempress.com | Ida Kubiszewski |Robert Costanza
Everyone loves dumplings, but what exactly is a dumpling? Must they be stuffed? Do they have to be boiled or can they be baked, like Cornish pasties? Can the dough be bread-like with yeast or does it need to be more like pasta dough? How big or small can they be? Is a clootie dumpling even a dumpling? What about a calzone? Can they be sweet or do they have to be savoury? So many questions and so much opportunity for long debates over drinks (and dumplings).
This book explores these and other questions.
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Jul 23, 2023 | 
dailybulletin.com.au | Robert Costanza
In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling “Measuring What Matters” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework. The statement was to have been released as part of this year’s May budget, and an earlier hurriedly-prepared attempt was included in Chalmers’ 2022 budget.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
businessdailymedia.com | Robert Costanza
In an implicit admission that the Commonwealth budget may not measure what really matters, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is about to release what he is calling “Measuring What Matters[1]” – Australia’s first national wellbeing framework. The statement was to have been released as part of this year’s May budget, and an earlier hurriedly-prepared[2] attempt was included in Chalmers’ 2022 budget.
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Jun 7, 2023 | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Kristen Gelineau |Robert Costanza
The wind had whipped the waves to nearly three times the woman's height when her panicked voice crackled over the phone. "Our boat has sunk!" Setera Begum shouted, as a storm threatened to spill her and around 180 others into the inky black sea south of Bangladesh. "Only half of it is still afloat!"
On the other end of the line, hundreds of miles away in Malaysia, was her husband, Muhammed Rashid, who picked up the phone at 10:59 p.m. his time on Dec. 7, 2022.
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Jun 3, 2023 | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Robert Costanza
Faculties, students, researchers, and conservationists of environmental and life science disciplines from Dhaka, Jahangirnagar, Jagannath and North South universities have joined WildTeam for a transformative 4-day training experience where they will gain invaluable skills and knowledge to fuel their research and conservation efforts. They will unlock the power of data science, the sexiest job of the 21st Century.
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Jun 3, 2023 | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Robert Costanza
Japanese Ambassador to Bangladesh Iwama Kiminori on Saturday expressed his country's willingness to enhance the bilateral relationship with Dhaka over the next 50 years in line with their "strategic partnership" focusing on trade, investment, people to people exchanges and security cooperation. He laid emphasis on implementing a variety of practical cooperation in promising sectors and explored the possibility of a trilateral platform among Japan, Bangladesh and India.
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May 29, 2023 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Costanza
I’ve just been to a three-day conference on sustainable prosperity in Europe, attended by thousands of people. In a stirring opening address, the speaker said governments must stop misusing GDP growth as their goal and move swiftly and urgently to sustainable wellbeing within planetary boundaries. They got a standing ovation.
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May 22, 2023 | 
znetwork.org | Robert Costanza
I’ve just been to a three-day conference on sustainable prosperity in Europe, attended by thousands of people. In a stirring opening address, the speaker said governments must stop misusing GDP growth as their goal and move swiftly and urgently to sustainable wellbeing within planetary boundaries. They got a standing ovation.
