This article discusses the anatomy of organizational policies. Understanding a policy’s internal and external structure helps policy writers and users of corporate policies to design policies that are more effective in achieving their objectives, i.e. are more likely to generate action and lead to desired outcomes. …

Recently, I wrote about the transdisciplinary approach to systems science to overcome fragmented and narrow approaches to sustainable development. I received quite a few requests to hear more about it. So here we go. Transdisciplinarity is a research strategy that offers wide perspectives on solving wicked problems. It may be…

“Sustainability” and “ Sustainable Development” are sometimes alleged to lack clarity and consistency as concepts of science and business practice. More than to problems with these key concepts and their foundations, the criticism points to disconnected thinking of those who disagree. …

Sustainability policies are instruments available that businesses and other organizations can apply to steer actions, outcomes, and impacts towards sustainable development. In this article, we discuss the structure and contents of sustainability and the type of decisions and actions they enable. …

The Guardian recently reported on the complex and therefore slow progress of negotiations of states parties to the UN Biodiversity Conference. At stake is setting new goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process. This process of back and forth negotiating and…

This is a reflection on the impacts of the ongoing European-American crisis on global sustainable development. These will be significant, far-reaching, and severe. Amidst the human tragedy inflicted upon the Ukrainian people that culminated from the Russian military invasion of Ukraine and the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by Western…

The most shocking about the invasion of Ukrainian by the Russian army on February 24th, and the mass destruction of lives and livelihoods that followed is, at first sight, and to many of us, the unacceptable human suffering caused overnight. It is good, and necessary that so many initiatives to…

As a trained organizational sociologist, I have a long-standing interest in the organization of knowledge. How do people bring together skills and expertise to master challenging collective tasks? How do they learn and acquire new skills? and how do they acquire new knowledge? Under what circumstances does knowledge (of climate…

A couple of friends and software developers interested in open source knowledge commons. One of the themes we have been exploring there is how we can represent knowledge visually to work together on solving problems. Knowledge graphs came up as one of the solutions to visualize anything you wish to…