Gross Domestic Regeneration counts what a place restores.
GDP counts what a place produces in a year. GDR scores the ecology, society and capital that output draws on, beside it.
A framework by Tenzin Seldon
The Amazon's municipalities
The measure
Ecology, society and capital, scored and multiplied
Each pillar is scored 0 to 100 against fixed goalposts, and they multiply into one reading.
Ecological regeneration
Emissions · Protected land · Material footprint
Social regeneration
Poverty · Health coverage · Wealth share
Capital regeneration
Resilient product · Export mix · Public debt
Calculating GDR
Average 73.3
GDR 38.3
0.60 × 0.85 × 0.75 = 0.383
Where it is read
Scores for regions, districts and counties
The Institute scores each place on local data and multiplies its pillars, the way a national reading is made. Each map ranks places within their own region, low to high.
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For a research partner, a philanthropist or an economist the way in is the same: start here.
A company or an institutional investorScore a portfolio, a supply chain or a site on the pillars its disclosure supports, and see which pillar binds.
A government bodyPut GDR beside GDP in a national account: where the place stands, and which pillar to lift first.
A land trustMeasure a place against its own limits: what it holds, what it keeps, and what a program would change.