New Book orders Available: Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development: A Pattern Language Approach

​​Author: Dr Phillip B. Roös

• Proposes a new theory for the sustainable development and planning of human settlements and cities
• Explores the human-nature relationship patterns between people and their natural environments
• Uniquely incorporates information on advanced indigenous knowledge systems 
• Charters a new pattern language that embeds the biophilia hypothesis within design and planning practice

Now available at: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030532338

In this book, the author tests a regenerative-adaptive pattern language theory towards investigating the possibilities of a holistic, integrated design and planning method for sustainable development that incorporates the principles of regenerative design, as well as an adaptive pattern language that re-establishes our wholeness with nature, and considers the vulnerabilities of a changing landscape. The book examines an integral approach to contemporary theories of planning and design that explores the human-nature relationship patterns in social and spatial interconnections, between people and their natural environments. The interconnectedness of human and natural systems is used to scaffold possible solutions to address key environmental and sustainability issues that specifically address the need for patterns of behaviour that acknowledge the duality of ‘man and nature’. In 12 chapters, the book presents a holistic, regenerative adaptive pattern language that encapsulates how communities can better appreciate landscape change under future climate effects, and acknowledges the importance to adapt to patterns of change of place and the environment and therefore inform the communities’ responses for sustainable development. The application of the regenerative-adaptive pattern language was tested along the Great Ocean Road region of the Victorian coast in Australia.