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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
4.12 Promote sharing equipment and tools. A number of local sharing initiatives exist. For
example, dingdong.lu provides a sharing service for household items. “Maschinenring
Luxemburg” rents large machinery to farmers. COMAT rents materials for the construction
sector and for other industries and public institutions. Public authorities should promote a
wide range of enterprises to allow families and businesses to share an array of items that
are only needed on a short-term basis.
4.13 Establish a new Commissioner on Rewilding to oversee already existing rewilded
conservation areas. Rewilding is based on trans-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, and interdisciplinary
research, experiments, actions, and adaptations. It is an emergent scientific
field of non-linear dynamics in complex systems that require adaptive management over
time as new insights and findings from diverse fields of research and modeling indicate
modifications are needed. A Commissioner on Rewilding is essential for ensuring a robust
initiative to protect, steward, and sustain Luxembourg’s swath of the Planetary Biosphere.
Bringing together citizen stakeholders and experts from academia, business, and
government, into a quadruple helix of knowledge innovation will be vital for fleshing out
Luxembourg’s unique rewilding opportunities and challenges.
4.14 Partner with neighboring nations and the Pan European Ecological Network to
implement transboundary rewilidng core areas and corridors. Earth systems sciences,
ecological network theory, and multi-level evolutionary framework analysis have each
provided compelling insights and reminders that the biosphere is not constrained by
political boundaries. 331 A fully effective rewilding initiative will require partnering with
other regions and nations (given the vast span of many seasonally migratory species). The
same TIR technologies will be essential for collecting, monitoring, and evaluating
continuous streams of big data, and making informed judgments on adaptive management
options.
5 Financial
5.1 Shift taxes off of people and onto environmental pollution and emissions. Taxing labor
discourages expanding employment, while failing to fully tax environmental externalities
removes incentives to reduce or eliminate pollution and emissions. Environmental taxes
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Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES): Advancing the post-disciplinary understanding of coupled human–
environment dynamics in the Anthropocene, Anthropocene Journal, March 2016,
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