From Sustainability to Thrivability: Transforming Systems with Purpose

Alexander Laszlo (), Karin Huber-Heim () and Stefan Blachfellner ()
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Alexander Laszlo: Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR)
Karin Huber-Heim: University of Applied Sciences BFI
Stefan Blachfellner: Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (BCSSS)

Chapter Chapter 18 in The Kyoto Post-COVID Manifesto For Global Economics, 2022, pp 305-316 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The contemporary landscape of challenges to survival, sustainability, and the possibility of flourishing on and with Earth are not the same today as when the Kyoto Manifesto was first written. Fortunately, neither are the tools at our disposal to deal with them. From conceptual to technological to behavioral, the systemic responses being developed appear to be appropriate to the task. However, it is critical that these responses be neither under-conceptualized nor over-constrained in their design and implementation. Through the power of collective intelligence and driven by the very experience of a global pandemic, a new norm for collective wellbeing is emerging in action. This chapter explores the key aspects of both the imperatives for this type of response as well as the practices emerging at the cutting edge of society. These focus not only on the necessary-but-not-sufficient objectives of survival and sustainability, but on the true potential of regeneration and thrivability to create the conditions for flourishing through the dynamics of circularity and inclusion of living systems in all our relations—with ourselves, each other, nature, past and future generations, and the underlying evolutionary dynamics of change.

Keywords: Thrivability; Systems; Circularity; Humaning; Metrics; Covid19; Pandemic; Regenerative economy; Regenerative systems; Behaviour; Behavioural change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8566-8_18

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