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...
An Economy of Place Part 8

An Economy of Place Part 8

Bioregionalism As Economic Regeneration Bioregionalism is systemic approach to societal design based on the belief that human activity should be largely constrained by ecological or geographical boundaries rather than political ones. It’s also a recognition that our...
An Economy of Place – Part 5

An Economy of Place – Part 5

A tried and tested systemic procss with 3.8 billion years of practice If you would like to start at the beginning of the series, An Economy of Place Part I starts here. In part 4 of this series, we shed some light on how the way in which we think — our paradigm of...
An Economy of Place – Part 4

An Economy of Place – Part 4

We are in a time of breakdowns and breakthroughs. The experience of the global covid19 pandemic has cast a bright light on the frailty in our global economies, has highlighted our inability to adjust to complexity, uncertainty and volatility, and accelerated the...