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The Timeless Way of Building serves as a profound meditation on how patterns emerge through the subtle dance of simple elements, each nested within larger wholes, each speaking the unique language of place. Alexander's work shows how enduring solutions flow from understanding the deeper grammar of...

The abstract of this paper doesn't do justice to the significant effort made to build on existing economic and scientific theories to extend to additional principles and dynamics that are grounded in biology and natural systems.  

Abstract: "Applying network science concepts and methods to economic...

Updated version of an earlier work, "this second framework paper (NWP2) is targeted at practitioners involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of natural resource–based rural development activities around the world, trying to make them more equitable, efficient, and effective. We also...

The authors of this research have done a great service to the field in identifying core elements of regenerative business models and elaborating a coherent framework that makes them distinct. Demonstrating the evolution of this field from sustainable, to circular, to regenerative, each facet is...

A groundbreaking translation of the three horizons framework to and complex systems and regenerative development sense-making and scenario building.

Abstract: "Global environmental change requires responses that involve marked or qualitative changes in individuals, institutions, societies, and...

Foundational writing for the regenerative development movement, author Daniel Christian Wahl explores the meaning and transformations needed to call forth regenerative cultures and to become regenerative ourselves. 

From the publisher, excerpt:

"We need to ask the deeper question of why we are...

Excerpt from the publisher, Princeton University Press "Many blame today’s economic inequality, stagnation, and political instability on the free market. The solution is to rein in the market, right? Radical Markets turns this thinking—and pretty much all conventional thinking about markets, both...

One of the foundational writings on economics and regenerative development that begins to explore and reconcile the purpose and functioning of capital and markets with the objectives of regenerative development.

From the executive summary. "Over the last two years, Capital Institute has been...