When we reflect, do we also do a bit of reflexive monitoring of our and others actions? My reflections are:
- it's ok to fail as long as we learn from each failure and iteratively improve the next attempt. If we are afraid of failure, we'd never try to do nature- based solutions to make the world a better place.
- Understand what the problem is that you are trying to solve and therefore what questions you need to ask to identify what data you need to help you move forward, benchmark or understand where you are.
- data should be spatial and visual. Everything is happening somewhere in the world.
- collaboration and co-production is the way forward . Working with communities, not doing things to them
- it's about co benefits, positive benefits for social cohesion ( habitats and human), health and wellbeing ( human and habitat), environmental, economic and biodiversity. All at the same time in the same place. So do no harm
- economic benefits are about so much more than bricks and mortar/ jobs created/ inward investment. But we don't place an economic value on the other things or account for them properly.
- Good spatial planning is about balancing the land and building assets for the public good, environmental good and supporting a balanced planet.
If we all try a little bit harder to understand our world, really understand our world.....maybe we can support it, to support us just a little bit longer
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