ABSTRACT

Humanity stands on a cliff's edge, at risk of total system collapse. As the great environmentalist David Brower once said, when you stand at a precipice, the only progressive move is to turn around. Regenerative development is the way by which humanity can make this conceptual turn and begin to move forward. It goes beyond older framings of sustainable development to embrace the principles of living systems as the basis for development. It shows how humanity can ascend from the degenerative world in which we live, and how more sustainable practices are rungs on a ladder to reach an economy in service to life.