ABSTRACT
Society consistently faces issues related to economy, the environment, and fairness among people. Each of these human concerns is in some way impacted by the forces that drive the natural world. But traditionally international development models intended to tackle societal problems have most often taken a piecemeal, singular approach, addressing issues of economics, environment, or social health, sometimes in isolation from one another. Typically, socioeconomic systems have been caught up in the adversarial "economy versus environment" debate, operating in a linear direction-taking resources from the Earth, making them into products, and throwing them away to produce large amounts of waste (take-make-waste).
