Week 5: doughnut economy

Question 1

What are the two boundaries in the Doughnut framework?

Answer 1

Outer: Planetary
Inner: Social foundation

Question 2

What is the goal of living within the doughnut?

Answer 2

Achieve an ecologically safe and socially just space.

Question 3

Name three of the seven ways to think link an economist in the 21st century

Answer 3

1. Change the goal (beyond GDP).
2. Distribute resources actively.
3. Regenerate the environment.

(4. being agnostic about growth, nurture human nature, etc.)

Question 4

List one critique of Doughnut Economics related to behavior.

Answer 4

Minimal guidance on hot to achieve behavioral change.

Question 5

What is a major critique regarding innovation?

Answer 5

Underplays the role of technological and organizational change needed.

Question 6

How did Amsterdam apply Doughnut Economics?

Answer 6

1) adressed housing crises.
2) Focused on ethical labor in cocoa imports.

Question 7

What organization scientifically quantifies safe spaces for people and the planet?

Answer 7

The Earth comission

Question 8

1: What is the concept of environmental space? And What does the dignity floor imply in environmental space?

Answer 8

1: States that all people have equal rights to resource consumption within the planet’s carrying capacity.
> Focuses on fairness and sustainability.
Above the dignity floor all individuals can meet basic needs without shame or inequality.