Regenerative Economies
A section of Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547).
Section Information
This section of Challenges is focused on how regenerative business and wellbeing economies can improve prosperity and well-being for all. Business plays a crucial role in addressing or exacerbating our global challenges, including worsening health crises, socio-political conflicts, and mounting threats to natural environments and planetary systems. There are growing concerns that current economic models which prioritize GDP and endless financial growth through finite resource consumption are not sustainable. In this section, we seek to explore how regenerative businesses, supported by economic models more focused on wellbeing can drive this shift toward regenerative, not destructive, growth, for a world that supports prosperity and flourishing all of life.
We aim to publish regular research papers, viewpoints and reviews on topics relevant to any aspect of regenerative economies, regenerative business and wellbeing economies. All authors should clearly articulate the relevance of their work to advancing planetary health.
Keywords
- Wellbeing economies as an alternative to destructive, growth-driven economies
- The grand challenges and the role of business and all organizations in support of a regenerative future and a regenerative economy
- Threats and limitations of current business and economic models
- Business and organizational structures, systems and processes associated with regenerative business
- Creating regenerative business and organization purposes and cultures
- Regenerative leadership in business and organizations
- Regenerative values and their universality
- Regenerative business and organization functions (marketing, HRM, accounting and finance, distribution and logistics, research and development etc.)
- Business and industry sector implications for a regenerative future
- Business, regenerative lifestyles and impacts on the natural environment and human health
- Language, communication and narrative development: regenerative, regenerative development and regenerativity
- Comparing sustainable versus regenerative approaches
- Toward a regenerative future and a regenerative economy. Issues of existence, structure, definition, governance in business and all organizations etc.
