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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Gentiana Nasi
City of London, England, United Kingdom
I am Gena; have lived in lots of places and am currently in London. I identify myself as a platonist and my focus is to dedicate my energy to "the true", "the good" and "the beautiful". Understanding the nature of reality and helping perpetuate the above triad with every decision I take can be undeniably challenging. Often intent guides actions, and I used to think that constant and conscious alignment with the intent is bound to derive the desired manifestation. However, our world is complex, and often the right intent isn't sufficient - our actions, although well intended, have unintended consequences and externalities, and the incentives society, business and culture project upon us often derive undesired results. This realisation has recently guided me towards learning more about systems thinking, complexity science, sustainability, circular economy and also to joining this community.
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Teo John
Singapore, Singapore
Founder, Positive Human Diversity Ventures / Living Ecosystems Lab
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Tayler Levy
London Borough of Waltham Forest, England, United Kingdom
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Brian Dowling
Hacienda Heights, California, United States of America
I serve as a board of directors member for the California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC.org)
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Pournima Agarkar
Pune, Maharashtra, India
I am working as an sustainability researcher on urban sustainability and climate change for a project in Pune titled making Pune a Sustainably Smart city by 2030. Here we are exploring the various tools to make the city not only smart through the use of technological innovations but also looking at the social and environmental aspects of the city along with climate change impacts.
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Amandine Sabourin
Brussels, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale - Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Researcher on public policies of cooperation and development, I now advocate for local governments active in decentralised cooperation. Interested to applying the doughnut to the local level!
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Tennille Mares
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Thomas Arnold
Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Belgium
Active Senior, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
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