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# Systems of Provisioning: Evaluating the System

## Details

**Authors** van Dongen

**Year** 2025

**Publisher** 21st Century Economics

**Kind of work** article

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** applications

[Read it](https://www.21steconomics.org/systems-of-provisioning-educational-approach/)

## In authors' words

### What they set out to do (purpose)

The second part of a series on teaching economics through systems of provisioning, using water as its running example.

### What they found (results)

Students evaluate any provisioning system through three lenses — social access and affordability, ecological impact, and economic security of supply — in a method the author describes as DSRP-informed.

## Commentary

### In short

Van Dongen uses a DSRP-informed method to structure how secondary-school students analyse and evaluate systems of provisioning through multiple social, ecological, and economic lenses.

**Patterns it shows** D, S, R, P

**Added** 2026-08-14

**How to cite this** van Dongen (2025). Systems of Provisioning: Evaluating the System. 21st Century Economics.