by Rob Malcolm | Jul 27, 2026 | Glossary
Regenerative Capacity is a system’s ability not only to adapt to changing conditions, but to restore and strengthen its capacity for continued renewal. In Adapt, Survive and Flourish, Adaptive Capacity combines human capital and social capital. Human capital...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 27, 2026 | Glossary
Organisational Regeneration is the process of rebuilding and strengthening the human, social, knowledge and operating foundations that enable an organisation to function, learn, adapt and renew itself. Organisations can keep operating even as these foundations...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 27, 2026 | Glossary
Regeneration is the ongoing process of restoring, renewing and strengthening the capacity of living systems to adapt, renew themselves and flourish. It goes beyond reducing harm or preserving what remains. Stopping depletion does not necessarily restore damaged...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 27, 2026 | Glossary
Sustainability is the capacity to continue without progressively degrading the conditions that make continuation possible. It extends beyond environmental protection, carbon reduction and resource efficiency. Organisations depend upon ecological integrity, human and...
by Rob Malcolm | Jul 27, 2026 | Source Note
From Reducing Harm to Increasing the Capacity to Flourish Sustainability and regeneration are closely related, but they are not the same. Sustainability asks whether organisations, communities and ecological systems can continue without exhausting the conditions upon...