Regenerative futures

Abstract

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how futures concepts may further existing regenerative sustainability thinking. Design/methodology/approach This paper reviews existing regenerative fields, including regenerative design, regenerative development and regenerative sustainability as alternatives to conventional sustainability practice. It considers futures concepts that may deepen regenerative thinking and practice to develop a regenerative futures conceptual model. Findings This paper demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures studies have the capacity to reciprocally inform one another and builds upon this relationship through the development of a regenerative futures conceptual model. Originality/value This paper makes a number of theoretical contributions. First, it demonstrates how regenerative fields and futures thinking may reciprocally inform one another and, subsequently, enrich regenerative practice. Second, by drawing from futures thinking, it questions and ultimately lengthens notions of reality and time from a regenerative perspective. Finally, through the proposal of a regenerative futures conceptual model, it offers an alternative lens to analyse human behaviours and their associated impacts. In this way, it introduces a theoretical model that is focused on deep individual and collective transformation and a starting point for future research and refinement.

Choosing Collaborative Learning Options for Preparing Innovative Entrepreneurs

“…Applying learning by doing through practical venture creation and business idea commercialisation processes is a suitable framework if the student enterprise team is ready to jump-start such a process and their sector-specific resource base can be created. Learning for future entrepreneurship by exploring features and role models of successful entrepreneurs in various countries, studying different types of entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, and new business opportunities in the context of the green agenda for regenerative futures (Camrass, 2020) is, however also operational for these students that need to broaden their interdisciplinary knowledge base and create their international network before launching a real start-up initiative. Collaborative learning can focus on own entrepreneurial start-up development of a team or engage learners in projects where student teams solve problems faced by other entrepreneurs already operating in practice.…”

Regenerative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Framework for Surpassing Sustainability and Attaining Regeneration

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“…Our failures to solve global environmental problems in the 20th and early 21st centuries have revealed that a focus on "sustainability" is inadequate in its goals, methods, and public appeal. Moreover, in the context of higher education, it is past time to abandon the simplistic approach of informing students about our environmental crisis while leaving them hopeless about its extent and with few or no skills for halting environmental damage and creating regeneration [1][2][3][4]. (Now we must teach the deep "why" of caring for our home planet as our life partner; exceed the standard of sustainability to focus on the more enduring, joyous, and restorative standard of regeneration; and offer our students knowledge and skills for effective regenerative action.…”

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“…Ce cadre énumère quelques indicateurs qui peuvent être utilisés dans l'évaluation, telle que : la couverture végétale du projet, leur capacité à stocker et à séquestrer le carbone, les taux d'abattement de la pollution atmosphérique par la végétation, la disponibilité des ressources comme les précipitations annuelles, etc. Attia, 2016 ; Busby & Driedger, 2011 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Kamrowska-Zaluska & Obracht-Prondzyńska, 2018 ;Lau et al, 2018 ;Naboni et al, 2019 ;Pedersen Zari, 2012 ;Pedersen Zari & Hecht, 2020 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Svec, Berkebile & Todd, 2012 ;Thomson & Newman, 2018 ;Thomson & Newman, 2020 ;Trombetta, 2018 ;Zhang et al, 2015. 2 Bénéfices mutuels à l'homme et à la nature 40 Bonyad, Hamzenejad & Khanmohammadi, 2020 ;Busby & Driedger, 2011 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Cole, 2012b ;Delpy & Zari, 2020 ;Kamrowska-Zaluska & Obracht-Prondzyńska, 2018 ;Lau et al, 2018 ;Naboni et al, 2019 ;Pedersen Zari, 2012 ;Pedersen Zari & Hecht, 2020 ;Petrovski, Pauwels, & González, 2021 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Trombetta, 2018 ;Vannini & Taggart, 2014 ;Zhang et al, 2015. Le projet urbain régénératif : un concept en émergence dans la pratique de l'... Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale urbaine et paysagère , Actualités de la recherche 3 Conception basée sur le lieu 31 Benne & Mang, 2015 ;Bonyad et al, 2020 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Cole, 2012b ;Hox...…”

“…2 Bénéfices mutuels à l'homme et à la nature 40 Bonyad, Hamzenejad & Khanmohammadi, 2020 ;Busby & Driedger, 2011 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Cole, 2012b ;Delpy & Zari, 2020 ;Kamrowska-Zaluska & Obracht-Prondzyńska, 2018 ;Lau et al, 2018 ;Naboni et al, 2019 ;Pedersen Zari, 2012 ;Pedersen Zari & Hecht, 2020 ;Petrovski, Pauwels, & González, 2021 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Trombetta, 2018 ;Vannini & Taggart, 2014 ;Zhang et al, 2015. Le projet urbain régénératif : un concept en émergence dans la pratique de l'... Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale urbaine et paysagère , Actualités de la recherche 3 Conception basée sur le lieu 31 Benne & Mang, 2015 ;Bonyad et al, 2020 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Cole, 2012b ;Hoxie, Berkebile & Todd, 2012 ;Kamrowska-Zaluska & Obracht-Prondzyńska, 2018 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Svec et al, 2012 ;Vannini & Taggart, 2014. 4 Coévolution des systèmes sociaux et écologiques 23 Bonyad et al, 2020 ;Camrass, 2020 ;Cole, 2012b ;Kamrowska-Zaluska & Obracht-Prondzyńska, 2018 ;Petrovski et al, 2021 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Trombetta, 2018 ;Zhang et al, 2015. 5 Amélioration des conditions de santé et vie du lieu 12 Bonyad et al, 2020 ;Robinson & Cole, 2015 ;Thomson &...…”