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An Introduction to the Circular Economy
Published in Marcello Tonelli, Nicoló Cristoni, Strategic Management and the Circular Economy, 2018
Marcello Tonelli, Nicoló Cristoni
Permaculture is “a design system for creating sustainable human environments. A philosophy of working with, rather than against nature… and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than elements as a single-product system” (Mollison 1994, 1). To this end, permaculture offers a set of methods and design principles to establish sustainable agricultural and social systems. In 2002, the book “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability” by David Holmgren identified the fundamental pillars of permaculture, with some of these closely relating to the CE principles of using renewable resources, producing zero waste, valuing diversity, and effectively interacting with natural patterns.
Nature's Rights in Permaculture
Published in Cameron La Follette, Chris Maser, Sustainability and the Rights of Nature in Practice, 2019
Permaculture is a design system for human habitats that is based on the fundamental principles of Nature. The principles of Nature have evolved over millennia to support the life within a total ecosystem, thereby maintaining a sustainable community of the living things. Permaculture is also designed to maintain human resilience by mimicking Nature's model, and re-establish that humans are a part of Nature rather than owners of Nature.
Re-shaping a post-seismic re-construction district through cycling infrastructures. The case of Monterusciello
Published in Michèle Pezzagno, Maurizio Tira, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality, 2018
Permaculture can be defined as an integrated system of landscape planning principles, based on the application of features and patterns observed in natural ecosystems, able to let the landscape satisfy community basic needs, such as food, fibres and energy, and, at the same time, be resilient, rich and permanent like natural ecosystems are.
Configuring more responsible knowledge-based bio-economies: the case of alternative agro-food networks
Published in Journal of Responsible Innovation, 2023
Such experiential understandings also emerged in discussions with representatives of permaculture growing projects (Member of grassroots citizen initiative), in which food growing has been approached as a knowing process based on personal interactions, observations and experimentations with land and nature. In this context, as described by the Permaculture Association, permaculture is configured as a more plural and inclusive agrifood innovative ‘solution’ that is embedded in people’s knowledges and nature’s patterns.: permaculture is about creating sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns. It uses the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems to provide a framework and guidance for people to develop their own sustainable solutions to the problems facing their world, on a local, national or global scale (Permaculture Association Website, 2014).A personal visit of a garden in Manchester helped me understand what one of the research participants described as a more inclusive ‘alternative science model’ (Member of urban food-growing network), significantly built on the skills of local citizens. However, such descriptions have also been manifesting those AAFN practitioners’ more reflexive understanding of science, in which food growing was understood as a new on-going learning-by-doing process, based on their regular embodied engagement with urban natural environments, land, and soil.