REPORT: Collective approaches to regeneration

Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

November 2021

McFarlane K, Wallace K, Shanahan D. 2021. Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Prepared for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge. Cawthron Report No. 3725. 84 p.

Abstract

There is a growing interest in scaling community-led ecosystem regeneration initiatives to extend, replicate, or coordinate activities across space, and expand or deepen the scope of regeneration activities.

This study characterises the diversity of collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand by drawing on 1) a review of the international literature on scaling restoration and collective action, and 2) a survey of 27 ecosystem regeneration collectives. The insights developed through this research contribute to theory on scaling ecosystem regeneration and may inform the work of organisations involved in collective regeneration.