Regenerative futures
ISSN: 1463-6689
Article publication date: 27 July 2020
Issue publication date: 25 August 2020
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.
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Citation
Camrass, K. (2020), "Regenerative futures", Foresight, Vol. 22 No. 4, pp. 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-08-2019-0079
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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