An Economy of Place – Part 13

An Economy of Place – Part 13

FOOD SYSTEMS Localising Food Systems – Naive Dream or Creative Optimism As I publish this we are fast approaching the UN Food Systems Summit in September 2021. Since the post-war environment of the 1950s activated the ‘green revolution’ in food systems, there...
An Economy of Place – Part 12

An Economy of Place – Part 12

HOW DO WE CREATE REGENERATIVE CITIES? By 2050, the UN estimates that 70% of all people will live in cities — up from 55% today. Although the growth of cities was first seen in Europe and North America, more recently it is Asia and Africa that are growing. Asia has...
An Economy of Place – Part 11

An Economy of Place – Part 11

HOW DO WE CREATE REGENERATIVE TOURISM DESTINATIONS? Although we haven’t quite yet finished the part of this series which looks at key issues that help us shift from extractive to interconnected economies, the time has come to take a sideways shift to look at some...
An Economy of Place – Part 10

An Economy of Place – Part 10

FROM EXTRACTIVE TO INTERCONNECTED ECONOMIES Activating Citizen Democracy In Donella Meadows paper Interventions in Systems, she writes about buffers and stocks as stabilising forces in society. Mostly when we think about buffers and stocks we think about things like...
An Economy of Place – Part 9

An Economy of Place – Part 9

FROM EXTRACTIVE TO INTERCONNECTED ECONOMIES Trans-disciplinary Education In part 3 and 4 of An Economy of Place I mentioned several times the fact that living systems are evolutionary and developmental, and that regenerative economies by design should therefore also...