Ah, not be be cut off,
not through the slightest partition
shut out from the law of the stars.
The inner – what is that?
if not intensified sky,
hurled through with birds and deep
with the winds of homecoming.
Rainer Maria Rilke
6. Measurement, Evaluation & Learning
How can you visualise and understand the dynamic health of the Bioregion? What can you learn and embed into governance decisions? Ideally, the metrics used are collectively agreed upon, honour multiple types of knowledge, and embrace the complexity inherent to living systems.
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Exploration: Bioregional Health Framework
Bioregional Financing Facilities derive their ultimate mandate from and find their core purpose in strengthening Bioregional Health. But what is Bioregional Health? And how do we know it is strengthened? Yes, fundamentally, Bioregional Health Metrics need to be defined by…
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Concept Note: Bioregional Observatories
Bioregional Observatories (BOs) offer a distinct, place-based infrastructure to generate, interpret, and apply knowledge in service of bioregional health and regeneration. Their value lies in enabling long-term, whole-system intelligence, grounded in both rigorous data and lived experience.
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Towards an eco-social contract: the Living Stewardship Agreement
The Radicle Civics team has been developing the Living Stewardship Agreement as an emerging response to the question: What could a new social contract become in a more-than-human civics? This has emerged from deep reflections on the limitations of Rights…
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Cornerstone Indicators
We have created a full open-source toolkit to help you develop your own context specific, holistic indicators. The toolkit contains three linked modules (Workshops, Analysis, Indicator Design) that can be customised to look at the questions and aspirations that you…