Permaculture as a Design Modality for Healing and Regeneration: Design with a Deeper Agenda. Michael, P. & Meacham, W. The Design Journal, 4:42–49, 2001. 2
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This paper describes the discipline of permaculture with particular emphasis on healing and regeneration of the land. Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable environments. Traditional site design concerns itself with placement of elements to achieve aesthetic or economic effects or both. Permaculture extends this effort to create environments that are healthful and nurturing for the humans and other species inhabiting the site and that are sustainable in their use of natural resources. The practice of permaculture involves observation of healthy natural systems and the design of human systems on the basis of the patterns observed in the natural systems. Its fundamental approach is to conserve what is on the site and stop the loss of resources; to heal and repair the damage that has been done; and then to create systems of abundance so the site will support wellbeing for all its inhabitants and its surroundings. The paper describes the basic steps in good permaculture describes a number of tools and design principles, and concludes that the designer can have a much more profound and holistic impact than has been generally assumed.
@article{michael_permaculture_2001,
	title = {Permaculture as a {Design} {Modality} for {Healing} and {Regeneration}: {Design} with a {Deeper} {Agenda}},
	volume = {4},
	shorttitle = {Permaculture as a {Design} {Modality} for {Healing} and {Regeneration}: {Design} with a {Deeper} {Agenda}},
	abstract = {This paper describes the discipline of permaculture with particular emphasis on healing and regeneration of the land. Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable environments. Traditional site design concerns itself with placement of elements to achieve aesthetic or economic effects or both. Permaculture extends this effort to create environments that are healthful and nurturing for the humans and other species inhabiting the site and that are sustainable in their use of natural resources. The practice of permaculture involves observation of healthy natural systems and the design of human systems on the basis of the patterns observed in the natural systems. Its fundamental approach is to conserve what is on the site and stop the loss of resources; to heal and repair the damage that has been done; and then to create systems of abundance so the site will support wellbeing for all its inhabitants and its surroundings. The paper describes the basic steps in good permaculture describes a number of tools and design principles, and concludes that the designer can have a much more profound and holistic impact than has been generally assumed.},
	journal = {The Design Journal},
	author = {Michael, P. and Meacham, W.},
	year = {2001},
	note = {2},
	pages = {42--49},
}

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