The Lancet Planetary Health Publication

An academic publication of the Doughnut to coincide with the release of the book Doughnut Economics

Version 2.0 (Oct 2025)

Please note that the quantitative assessment underpinning the Doughnut was updated in 2025, which supersedes the information on this page. For the latest assessment results, visit the 'What is the Doughnut?' page.

Overview

This open-access academic publication published in 2017, entitled 'A Doughnut for the Anthropocene: Humanity's Compass in the 21st Century' was published to accompany the publication of the 2017 book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st-Century Economist.

In this paper, Kate Raworth introduces the core concept of the Doughnut as well as a detailed discussion and rationale for selecting the indicators in the 2017 version of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries.

The publication is available online in the Lancet Planetary Health journal here, and available as a PDF below.

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