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The Future of Well-Being: Cities as Living Laboratories

Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research

“Urban wilderness is increasingly at the forefront of change.” These opening remarks at the Institute for the Future’s (IFTF) annual Health Horizons conference last week captured the notion that cities are living laboratories where ideas, imagination, and people gather to find solutions to resource constraints and global imbalances threatening the well-being of people and the planet. IFTF presented its “Map of the Decade: Ecosystems of Well-Being,” a tool that describes the forces shaping the future of well-being not as individual experiences, but as “interconnected ecosystems.” These forces, which IFTF believes will shape health and health care in the next decade, are: Read more 

Posted: June 14, 2011 | Topics: Strategy & Integration

Explore Our Impact: Videos

Take a deeper dive into the BSR Report 2010 and core areas of our work in video clips that provide personal perspective from BSR staff members. Read more 

Posted: June 7, 2011 | Topics: Community Engagement & Development, Conflict Minerals, Economic Development, Ecosystem Services, Energy, Investor Perspective, Mining, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain

Climate Adaptation Measures to Manage Risks and Create Opportunities

Ryan Schuchard, Manager, Climate and Energy

With the increasing severity of storms and weather disasters, receding rivers, advancing deserts, and more frequent landslides, floods, and sinkholes, there's no question that the effects of climate change will test business' ability to deliver products and services. Read more 

Posted: May 31, 2011 | Topics: Climate Change, Strategy & Integration

Climate Change Adaptation for the ICT and Consumer Products Sectors

Joyce Wong, Former Associate, Advisory Services

For the consumer products and ICT sectors, climate change has the potential to disrupt supply chains, damage critical assets and infrastructure, and create new customer needs. The latest reports in BSR’s "Climate Change Adaptation" series—which provides insight on climate-related risks and opportunities for a variety of industries—include practical examples of actions companies are already taking, as well as recommendations on how company leaders can improve their business’ resiliency. Read more 

Posted: May 24, 2011 | Topics: Climate Change, Consumer Products, Information & Communications Technology, Strategy & Integration

The Human Face of Water-Related Risk Assessments

Linda Hwang, Former Manager, Research

At the CEO Water Mandate meeting in Copenhagen last week—which focused on corporate water disclosure—one participant reminded us of the connections between water, healthy populations, and corporate performance. Despite the growing number of  tools to help investors and companies assess water-related risks, companies will miss a critical factor when evaluating their long-term risks if the tools do not link physical-, regulatory-, and reputational-risk frameworks to people’s ability to participate in the growth of healthy economies. Read more 

Posted: May 24, 2011 | Topics: Community Engagement & Development, Economic Development, Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain, Water

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