Towards a regenerative paradigm for the built environment

dc.contributor.authorDu Plessis, Chrisna
dc.date.accessioned2013-11-27T08:21:52Z
dc.date.available2013-11-27T08:21:52Z
dc.date.issued2012-01
dc.description.abstractThe concept of regenerative design and development is situated within the broader theoretical context of sustainability. The emerging regenerative paradigm is contrasted with the two current sustainability paradigms – internationally negotiated ‘idealistic’ public policy and private sector ‘Ecological Modernization’ – that seek to maintain the status quo. Each of these sustainability paradigms is explained though a brief historical narrative to illustrate their response to broader social pressures, the main critiques of each and some commonalities. It is argued that the dominant sustainability paradigms are reaching the limitations of their usefulness due to their conceptual foundation in an inappropriate mechanistic worldview and their tacit support of a modernization project that prevents effective engagement with a complex, dynamic and living world. The regenerative paradigm provides an alternative that is explicitly designed to engage with a living world through its emphasis on a co-creative partnership with nature based on strategies of adaptation, resilience and regeneration. It provides a foundation for a sustainability paradigm that is relevant to an ecological worldview.en
dc.description.librarianhb2013en
dc.description.librarianai2014
dc.description.urihttp://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbri20en
dc.identifier.citationChrisna du Plessis (2012) Towards a regenerative paradigm for the built environment, Building Research & Information, 40 :1, 7-22, DOI : 10.1080/09613218.2012.628548en
dc.identifier.issn0961-3218 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1466-4321 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.1080/09613218.2012.628548
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/32634
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.rights© Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Building Research and Information, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 7-22, 2012. Building Research and Information is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbri20en
dc.subjectBuilt environmenten
dc.subjectEcologismen
dc.subjectRegenerative designen
dc.subjectSustainable buildingen
dc.subjectUrban sustainabilityen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable designen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable architectureen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable buildings -- Design and constructionen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable constructionen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable urban developmenten
dc.subject.lcshSustainable livingen
dc.subject.lcshGreen movermenten
dc.titleTowards a regenerative paradigm for the built environmenten
dc.typePostprint Articleen

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