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Towards Regenerative Development Responding to environmental and economic pressures on the built environment
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Towards Regenerative
Development
Responding to environmental and
economic pressures on the built
environment
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Economic Change
Peak Oil
Climate Change
Natural SphereHuman Sphere
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“[Hu]man made surroundings that provide
the setting for human activity, ranging from
large-scale civic surroundings to the
personal places”
Moffatt, et al, 2008
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Energy and material
Greenhouse gas
emissions
Total waste
40%
40%40%
UNEP 2007
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Four approaches to a sustainable built
environment
• Eco-efficiency
• Eco-effectiveness – cradle-to-cradle
• Restorative Design
• Regenerative Development
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Conservation House, Wellington, New Zealand
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Four approaches to a sustainable built
environment
• Eco-efficiency
• Eco-effectiveness – cradle-to-cradle
• Restorative Design
• Regenerative Development
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Adam Joseph Lewis Centre for Environmental
Studies, Oberlin College, Cleveland, USA
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Four approaches to a sustainable built
environment
• Eco-efficiency
• Eco-effectiveness – cradle-to-cradle
• Restorative Design
• Regenerative Development
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Living Water Gardens, Chengdu, China
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Four approaches to a sustainable built
environment
• Eco-efficiency
• Eco-effectiveness – cradle-to-cradle
• Restorative Design
• Regenerative Development
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The Willow School, Gladstone, New Jersey, USA
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Trajectory of Responsible Design
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Conventional
NEGATIVE
ENVIRONMENTAL
OUTCOME
Eco-efficiency,
green,
sustainable
ZERO STATE
Cradle-to-cradle,
Restorative and
Regenerative Development
POSITIVE OUTCOME
Paradigm shift
Business as
usual in NZ
5yrs 40yrs 80yrs 100+yrs
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1. Increased human physical health and psychological wellbeing
2. Reduced economic costs (over life cycle) and increased economic value.
The building/development becomes a potential source of income.
3. Increased innovation in projects.
4. Positive environmental impact.
5. Changing relationship to nature. ‘Deeper and more enduring’.
6. Manageable and meaningful approach to global issues through a place-
based approach.
7. More integrated and therefore accurate knowledge of place. Mutually
beneficial relationships are created between people and place.
8. Increased robustness, flexibility and adaptability in the face of climatic
change.
9. Creates stronger, more equitable communities.
Benefits
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“The path towards a prosperous and healthy
future lies, of necessity, in our ability to re-
integrate our thinking, our systems, and
ourselves into the natural systems and limits
in which they have existed, albeit in stark
denial of that reality, all along”
David Eisenberg and William Reed
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Conservation House, Wellington, New Zealand
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Adam Joseph Lewis Centre for Environmental
Studies, Oberlin College, Cleveland, USA
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Living Water Gardens, Chengdu, China
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The Willow School, Gladstone, New Jersey, USA
