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Our Postpandemic World: What Will It Take to Build a Better Future for People and Planet?
Author(s) -
VAN SCHALKWYK MAY CI,
MAANI NASON,
COHEN JONATHAN,
MCKEE MARTIN,
PETTICREW MARK
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.12508
Subject(s) - flourishing , exploit , status quo , transformational leadership , work (physics) , power (physics) , political science , public relations , planet , business , engineering , computer security , computer science , psychology , law , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , astrophysics
Policy Points Despite the pandemic's ongoing devastating impacts, it also offers the opportunity and lessons for building a better, fairer, and sustainable world. Transformational change will require new ways of working, challenging powerful individuals and industries who worsened the crisis, will act to exploit it for personal gain, and will work to ensure that the future aligns with their interests. A flourishing world needs strong and equitable structures and systems, including strengthened democratic, research, and educational institutions, supported by ideas and discourses that are free of opaque and conflicted influence and that challenge the status quo and inequitable distribution of power.