Systems Thinking for the Longer Term
An evolving initiative of EWSP Consultancy
Regenerative Landscape Futures explores how systems thinking and long-term perspectives can help create more resilient, abundant, and flourishing landscapes and communities.
Drawing on more than a decade of experience in regenerative design, writing, and research, I examine the intersections between ecology, food systems, climate resilience, technology, philosophy, and stewardship. My aim is not to predict the future, but to explore pathways towards regenerative futures and contribute to thoughtful conversations about the decades ahead.
Why Regenerative Landscape Futures?
The challenges we face are increasingly interconnected. Climate change, biodiversity loss, food security, water management, technological change, and social resilience cannot be understood in isolation.
Regenerative Landscape Futures seeks to bring together ideas from different disciplines and perspectives, asking how we might cultivate landscapes and communities that are more resilient, adaptive, and capable of flourishing over the longer term.
This is a space for exploration, synthesis, and dialogue.
Areas of Interest
- Regenerative land management
- Climate adaptation and resilience
- Food systems and ecological abundance
- Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration
- Water and catchment management
- Appropriate technologies and ecological intelligence
- Systems thinking
- Philosophy and ethics
- Futures and foresight
- Stewardship and long-term thinking
Current Activities
Essays and Commentary
Exploring emerging ideas and long-term perspectives through writing and analysis.
Research and Synthesis
Connecting insights across disciplines to examine the future of landscapes and communities.
Regenerative Landscape Futures on Substack
An ongoing publication dedicated to systems thinking for the longer term.
https://elizabethwaddington.substack.com
Conversations and Collaboration
Building relationships with practitioners, researchers, and others interested in regenerative futures.
Looking Ahead
Regenerative Landscape Futures is a long-term project.
Over time, I hope to develop reports, collaborations, events, and a wider network of contributors and associate fellows, helping to foster systems thinking in service of regenerative landscape futures.
Get in Touch
I welcome conversations with others interested in regenerative futures and systems thinking for the longer term.
Together, we can explore how thoughtful stewardship and long-term perspectives might help create landscapes and communities capable of flourishing for generations to come.