The World Capital Institute (WCI) is an independent international Think Tank whose purpose is to further the understanding and application of knowledge as the most powerful leverage of development.
New Book by Francisco Javier Carrillo!
Degrowth through Knowledge-Based Development
Social Flourishing in the Anthropocene
This book tackles the terms under which a knowledge-based society can indefinitely improve while pursuing an eco-economic steady state. In doing so, it addresses the literature gap on continued social improvement within a postgrowth economic and cultural paradigm.
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CLIMATE STRIPES
Representing global temperature rise over two centuries.
In 2024, the world exceeded the 1.5°C threshold for the first time in any one year.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported that there is an 80% likelihood that the annual average global temperature will temporarily exceed 1.5°C for at least one of the next five years.
Check out these two groundbreaking publications:
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A Modern Guide to Knowledge
From Knowledge Economies to Knowledge in the Anthropocene
This book aims at providing an integrated theory of knowledge and value while facing the existential challenges of the Anthropocene.
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Knowledge For The Anthropocene
A Multidisciplinary Approach
With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help us deal with such realities.
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City Preparedness For The Climate Crisis
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements.
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August 15, 2025
Innovation is universally recognised as critical to drive prosperity in modern knowledge-
based economies and societies. It will be essential to address and solve the rising tide of complex...
August 15, 2025
Full recording of the webinar presented by Javier Carrillo, exploring the deep connections between Knowledge-Based Development and the urgent...
August 27, 2024
In recent years, environmental policymaking has become increasingly dominated by a single term: the...