Book and toolbox : Doughnut for urban development

This document is the result of two years of co-creation and cross-disciplinary collaboration to illustrate how urban development projects can be designed within planetary boundaries while ensuring social well-being. The toolbox provides useful guidance and supporting resources to assess both on-site and off-site impacts of urban development projects.

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Facilitation tool: the Doughnut unfolded through 4 lenses

Doughnut Economics Action Lab

This workshop encourages holistic thinking (social and envivonmental – local and global) to support better decision-making in daily life or work. The Doughnut’s 4 Lenses help analyse projects or places in a systemic and sustainable way.

Presentation set on the 7 Principles of Doughnut Economics

Doughnut Economics Action Lab & Rethinking Economics

Explore Doughnut Economics in depth through its 7 key principles. These 7 presentations can be used in university courses to introduce the foundational ideas behind the Doughnut.

Doughnut business cases

Doughnut Economics Action Lab

Here is a collection of 15 case studies on companies that embrace distributive and regenerative practices by implementing innovative solutions within their very functioning — their internal ‘business design’. This design consists of five levels: mission, networks, governance, ownership, and finance. Discover, among others, the cases of Maison Dandoy and Citizenfund in Belgium.