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Publications

An introduction to regenerative dynamics

2026

FixOurFood and Ecocentric Futures

Tools for regenerative practice: 30 frameworks, exercises and methods in service of human and planetary flourishing

2026

FixOurFood and Ecocentric Futures

Designing, implementing and embedding transformation-focused evaluation: A framework and insights from a regional food system change initiative

2026

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

Accelerating regional food systems change: Lessons from a FixOurFood knowledge exchange event

2026

FixOurFood

How can evaluation practice catalyse transformations towards regenerative futures?

2026

White Rose eTheses Online

Synergies: understandings in a complex world

2025

Sustainability Science

Food for the Future North Yorkshire: A Framework for Action

2025

North Yorkshire Council and FixOurFood

How can we enable synergic action to support sustainable transformations?

2025

White Rose eTheses Online

Toward an ecocentric leadership as stewardship framework: Insights from fostering transformative partnerships and collective practice

2025

Earth Stewardship

Opportunities for increasing nutrition in food aid initiatives supported by surplus food supply

2025

FixOurFood

Key action areas for transforming the UK food system: insights from the Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) Programme project portfolio

2025

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B

Imagination Activation Exercise: What If…?

2025

Springer

Systems Sensing Approach (in: Imagining, Designing and Teaching Regenerative Futures: Art-Science Approaches and Inspirations From Around the World)

2025

Springer

How to Support Synergic Action for Transformation: Insights from Expert Practitioners and the Importance of Intentionality

2025

Sustainability

Inquiry into Prerequisites for Co-Creating a Culture of Care and Kinship

2025

Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design, RSD13

Ten principles for transforming economics in a time of global crises

2025

Nature Sustainability

Twelve principles for transformation-focused evaluation

2025

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

Transformative Change Assessment

2025

IPBES Secretariat

Transformative action towards regenerative food systems: A large-scale case study

2024

PLOS Sustainability and Transformation

Reform or transform? A spectrum of stances towards the economic status quo within ‘new economics’ discourses

2024

Global Social Challenges

Community-based sustainability initiatives: the quality of relationships matter?

2024

Sustainability Science

‘Kesho’ Scenario Development for Supporting Water-Energy Food Security under Future Conditions in Zanzibar

2024

Sustainability Science

Community-centred scenarios development for water–energy–food security on Zanzibar

2024

Sustainability Science

Systems Sensing for Transformations Organizations: Lessons from the Transformations Conference 2023

2023

Social Innovations Journal

State of the Field Panel on the Evaluation and Assessment of Transformation: A Case Study of Response to the Polycrisis

2023

Social Innovations Journal

Sensemaking the Transformations Community’s Future

2023

Social Innovations Journal

The Regenerative Lens: A conceptual framework for regenerative social-ecological systems

2023

One Earth

A people-centred framework for exploring water, energy and food security in a small developing island

2023

Population and Environment

Transformation: An introductory guide to fundamental change for researchers and change makers in a world of crises

2023

Transforming UK Food Systems

Transforming the Yorkshire food system for people and planet

2023

FixOurFood

Practical wisdom and virtue ethics for knowledge co-production in sustainability
science

2023

Nature Sustainability

Transforming to a regenerative farming system in Yorkshire: Summary report of the co-creative Three Horizons process

2022

FixOurFood

Transforming food culture in Yorkshire’s schools and early years settings: Summary report of the co-creative Three Horizons process

2022

FixOurFood

Archetypes of system transition and transformation: Six lessons for stewarding change

2022

Energy Research & Social Science

Transformation of Yorkshire's food economies: Summary report of the co-creative Three Horizons process

2022

FixOurFood

Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital

2022

Ambio

Turning the tide: Landscape analysis of an emergent economic movement in Europe

2021

Demos Helsinki

Systems Sensing and Systemic Constellation for Organizational Transformation

2021

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change

Third Horizon Economics: Reforming or Transforming in the Wake of COVID-19

2021

SSRN

Renewing Universities in Our Climate Emergency: Stewarding System Change and Transformation

2021

Frontiers In Sustainability

Social dynamics of community resilience building in the face of climate change

2021

Sustainability Science

If It Is Life We Want: A Prayer for the Future (of the) University

2021

Frontiers In Sustainability

A pluralistic and integrated approach to action-oriented knowledge for sustainability

2021

Nature Sustainability

Three Horizons: The Patterning of Hope

2020

Triarchy Press

Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research

2017

Energy Research & Social Science

Transformation in a changing climate: a research agenda

2017

Climate and Development

Three horizons: a pathways practice for transformation

2016

Ecology and Society

Past and future adaptation pathways

2015

Climate and Development

Adaptation and pathways of change and response: A case study from Eastern Europe

2014

Global Environmental Change

You say you want a revolution? Transforming education and capacity building in response to global change

2013

Environmental Science & Policy

Resilience and Higher Order Thinking

2010

Ecology and Society

Ecocentric Futures contributors: Sam Buckton, Ioan Fazey, Chino Bayoneta, Bill Sharpe, David Tyfield

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