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The Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development focused on making the connections between democratic governance and sustainable development. It transferred its work to the School for International Futures in 2025.

With democracy becoming an endangered species, is sustainability in peril? | A reflection by Sara Parkin, November 2018

by | Dec 7, 2018 | News and Comment

With democracy becoming an endangered species, is sustainability in peril? | Sara Parkin, Nov 2018

In 2008, Sara Parkin wrote a provocation for the FDSD: โ€œAre Political Parties getting in the way of the sort of collaborative democracy we need to tackle sustainability? If so, what can we do about it?โ€ Ten years later, she revisits her thinking, “in the light”, she says “of the corruption of our current democratic systems”.

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