Regenerative Development
The concept of Regenerative Development was coined in 1995 by the Regenesis Group a multidisciplinary collective specialized in permaculture and ecological design, architecture, business planning and organizational development. The founders’ early mission was to transform the development industry into one that would contribute to, rather than undermine, the health of the planet.Regenesis Website - https://regenesisgroup.com
Sustainability is a first and necessary step to address the impacts that human activities are making in natural systems. But Sustainability comes from a problem-solving mindset. This mindset is appropriate to address simple and complicated systems (engineered systems). But when applied to complex systems (social and natural systems) a problem-solving approach usually create unintended consequences, generating residual problems that can grow into complex problems or wicked problems. Yes, is important to continue to develop ways to reduce human impacts and increase the efficiency on how we use natural and human resources (main goals of sustainability), but because human population and ecological footprint are increasing, an approach focus mainly in reducing cannot make the positive contributions needed to maintain the capacity of ecosystems to produce the ecosystems services needed to maintain healthy and thriving natural and social systems. http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/5385/0 In the book "Regenerative Development and Design - A Framework for Evolving Sustainability" the authors explain that the founders of the Regenesis Group began with a fundamental belief that environmental problems were symptoms of a fractured relationship between people and nature. It's more a cultural and Psychological problem rather than technological. It requires a transformation in how humans played their role as members of an ecologically connected planet. We would need to shift from seeing ourselves as separate from nature to see ourselves as part of a co-evolutionary whole, in a symbiotic relationship with the living places we inhabit. Regenerative Development provides a coherent approach for establishing this partnership by pursuing sustainability within the conceptual framework of living, evolving systems. It works on developing the capability of whole living systems, social as well as natural, to express their potential for diversity, complexity, and creativity. Sarah Jenkin and Maibritt Pedersen Zari write that regenerative development “investigates how humans can participate in ecosystems through development, to create optimum health for both human communities (physically, psychologically, socially, culturally and economically) and other living organisms and systems.” They describe regenerative development as defining the desired outcome and regenerative design as the means of achieving it.[1]
Regenerative Development[edit]
The concept of Regenerative Development was coined in 1995 by the Regenesis Group a multidisciplinary collective specialized in permaculture and ecological design, architecture, business planning and organizational development. The founders’ early mission was to transform the development industry into one that would contribute to, rather than undermine, the health of the planet.Regenesis Website - https://regenesisgroup.com
Sustainability is a first and necessary step to address the impacts that human activities are making in natural systems. But Sustainability comes from a problem-solving mindset. This mindset is appropriate to address simple and complicated systems (engineered systems). But when applied to complex systems (social and natural systems) a problem-solving approach usually create unintended consequences, generating residual problems that can grow into complex problems or wicked problems. Yes, is important to continue to develop ways to reduce human impacts and increase the efficiency on how we use natural and human resources (main goals of sustainability), but because human population and ecological footprint are increasing, an approach focus mainly in reducing cannot make the positive contributions needed to maintain the capacity of ecosystems to produce the ecosystems services needed to maintain healthy and thriving natural and social systems. http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/view/5385/0
In the book "Regenerative Development and Design - A Framework for Evolving Sustainability" the authors explain that the founders of the Regenesis Group began with a fundamental belief that environmental problems were symptoms of a fractured relationship between people and nature. It's more a cultural and Psychological problem rather than technological. It requires a transformation in how humans played their role as members of an ecologically connected planet. We would need to shift from seeing ourselves as separate from nature to see ourselves as part of a co-evolutionary whole, in a symbiotic relationship with the living places we inhabit. Regenerative Development provides a coherent approach for establishing this partnership by pursuing sustainability within the conceptual framework of living, evolving systems. It works on developing the capability of whole living systems, social as well as natural, to express their potential for diversity, complexity, and creativity. Sarah Jenkin and Maibritt Pedersen Zari write that regenerative development “investigates how humans can participate in ecosystems through development, to create optimum health for both human communities (physically, psychologically, socially, culturally and economically) and other living organisms and systems.” They describe regenerative development as defining the desired outcome and regenerative design as the means of achieving it. [1]
Regenerative Development and Design: A Framework for Evolving Sustainability - Benn Haggard and Pamela Mang, 2016
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