Regenerative futures

Kimberly Camrass

doi:10.1108/FS-08-2019-0079

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Regenerative futures

Kimberly Camrass

Foresight, Vol.22(4), pp.401-415

2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/FS-08-2019-0079

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Abstract

futures

forecasting

sustainable development

forward planning

regenerative

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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Title: Regenerative futures
Authors: Kimberly Camrass (Author)
Publication details: Foresight, Vol.22(4), pp.401-415
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
DOI: 10.1108/FS-08-2019-0079
ISSN: 1465-9832
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99482304302621
Output Type: Journal article