The fashion industry’s extractive model, coupled with the throwaway attitudes it encourages, is driving the planet’s ...

In the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon, locals tap rubber and extract Brazil nuts from the rainforest ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These include learning (the acquisition of information and rules for ...

I’ve written about Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty before and I think it’s an amazing book that everyone should read and buy. That said, since finishing it, I do have a ...

Local economic development and diversification policies are becoming a priority in many mineral-rich developing countries. These policies aim to ensure extractive industries support the development of ...

Extractive political institutions concentrate power in the hands of a narrow elite and place few constraints on the exercise of this power. Extractive economies sow the seeds of their own destruction ...

In human civilisation, prosperity and progress come when human beings start to organise themselves into institutional setup. The progress of any nation depends on how the institutions are arranged in ...

Dezeen is partnering with V–A–C to produce content about Non-Extractive Architecture, an initiative advocating for a new type of architecture that does not exploit the planet. Non-Extractive ...