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Biology/Ecology
Political Science/Environmental Law
Urban Planning
Dr. Basile Finand,
Technical University of Munich
Dr. Stephan Hauser,
University of Helsinki
PhD Candidate Lukas Höller,
TU Delft
They say great leaders build empires alone. Ant queens would disagree. We found that when queens start their colony with a few workers, everything goes smoother: the kids survive, the nest grows, and the queen doesn’t burn out. Founding solo? High risk, low reward. Founding with help? Instant success. Moral of the story: behind every successful queen is someone else doing the heavy lifting.
Everyone’s heard of genocide: that horrible act of wiping out groups of people. But have you heard of ecocide? No, because no one cares; that's why. Yet, it could relate to genocide, as private and public actors together knew about climate change since the 1960s, if not before, and did nothing.
GDP is still the go-to metric to measure human “progress”, even though it measures it about as well as a toaster measures my Wi-Fi signal strength at home. That's why, in our research, we threw 53 wellbeing frameworks into a river basin to see who could do better. Spoiler: None of it survived the social, ecological, and political whirlpools. Manfred Max-Neef’s Human Scale Development Approach, basically the wise old hippie of wellbeing frameworks, came closest, but it still struggles to quantify the squishy stuff. Our solution: A mashup of spreadsheets and soul-searching.
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