ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an examination of the concept and practice of regenerative development through the lens of environmental justice (EJ) scholarship and politics. While regenerative development holds a great deal of potential for moving scholars, planners, and community leaders beyond the limitations of sustainability discourses and development practices, this concept's promise may be more fully realized if it can successfully be applied to contexts and cases where populations face significant social, economic, political, and environmental harm and marginalization (i.e., environmental injustice). In this chapter, I explore the following questions: How might the theory and practice of regenerative development be integrated with the theory and practice of EJ? How does each concept reveal unrealized potential (as well as limitations) in the other? To what extent has regenerative development already been attuned to EJ struggles (and vice versa), and how can scholars, planners, and advocates acknowledge and amplify those linkages?
