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The measure of flourishing

22 July 2026
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Yadvinder Malhi

The measure of flourishing

Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index
 

Yadvinder Malhi has written an article for Aeon magazine, presenting a new metric which asks not only how wealthy or healthy societies are, but what kinds of landscapes, cities and planetary relationships their prosperity produces.

The metric has been developed in conjunction with researchers from the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and the UN Human Development Report Office, as well as several other academics in fields ranging from history to anthropology and psychology.

Read the article here

Find out more about the programme here