Influential Reports & Practices

This page lists the most important reports and research which informed and continues to inform our thinking and overall direction. Rather than blindly following each report’s specific recommendations, we pick and choose and apply what we feel is relevant to the valley.

The full range of the research papers we have referenced can be found at

Tools for Bioregional Resilience⁠

Environment

Ecoregionalism: Human activity coordinated within ecological or geographical boundaries rather than political ones. For detail see

https://bit.ly/B10Reg⁠

Water Retention Landscapes: A regenerative practice, also known as 'slow water,' that engages denizens with the hydrological cycle. For detail see

https://bit.ly/W-R-L⁠

Foresight Practice

The Three Horizons: The terminology of H1 (Business as Usual), H2 (Interim Innovation) and H3 (Longterm Viable Future) from the three horizons report allows us to quickly distinguish from which perspective we are discussing a particular topic. Our work is mostly focussed on H2, while the longterm outcome we are heading towards is H3. For detail see

https://bit.ly/3-Horizons⁠

The Three Scenarios: The conscious choice the denizens of the valley have to collectively make between three distinct possibilities for the future of human society: T1 (Termination), T2 (Technocracy) or T3 (Transcendence). For detail see

https://bit.ly/3-Scen⁠

Funding

Financing Landscape Restoration: Describes four types of capital and shows how (European) funding is being unlocked to create value flow into landscape regeneration. For detail see

https://bit.ly/FundHLR⁠

Funding Governance for Systemic Transformation Blueprint: Points to alternative practices and ambitions to displace the dysfunctions of extant systems with regenerative funding governance. For detail see

https://bit.ly/FundEco⁠

Governance

Localism: A mindshift from dependence on national government to citizens forging their own future at the local level, as proposed by Helena Norberg-Hodge and others. For detail see

https://bit.ly/LOC4L⁠

Subsidiarity: Where social and political issues are dealt with at the most immediate or local level that makes sense. For detail see

https://bit.ly/Subsity⁠

Deliberative Watershed Denizenship: A bottom-up governance concept that integrates environmental considerations with social and political dimensions, emphasizing the interdependence of human communities with the ecological health of their watershed. For detail see

https://bit.ly/DWDen⁠

Production

Fibershed: A geographical landscape (bioregion) that defines and gives boundaries to a natural textile resource base. For detail see

https://bit.ly/Fshed⁠

SEKEM Initiative: This Egyptian worker cooperative is a role model for how community members can create cooperatives of production, supported by centralised distribution and marketing services. For detail see

https://bit.ly/S3K3M⁠

Syntropic Agriculture: A process-based approach to food and fibre production that imitates the natural regeneration of forests and provides a harmonious integration of crops, trees, and animals. For detail see

https://bit.ly/SynAg⁠

Stakeholder Engagement

Asset-Based Community Development: Community-driven development that focuses on identifying and mobilizing existing assets within a community. For detail see

https://bit.ly/AssComDev⁠

FRUITS (Facilitated Rural Urban Integrative Transformative Systems): A whole systems design approach that aims to create resilient rural communities optimized by the best globally available design thinking. For detail see

https://bit.ly/FRU1TS⁠

Six Conversations: These community-building conversations are pointedly designed to confront the issue of accountability and commitment, rather than merely finger-pointing and blaming. For detail see

Six Conversations⁠

Municipalities Adapting in Response to Complexity (MARC): An ambitious, applied research partnership to explore the role municipalities play in citizen-led responses to climate resilience. For detail see

https://bit.ly/MuniComplex⁠

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