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# Regenerative Economics Textbook, Section S.2: Systems Thinking Patterns

## Details

**Authors** Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann

**Year** 2026

**Publisher** Regenerative Economics (open-access secondary-school textbook, regenerativeeconomics.earth)

**Kind of work** chapter

**Discipline** Education

**Kind of engagement** applications

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## In authors' words

### What they found (results)

Presents distinctions (types of provisioning institutions), systems (the nested embedded-economy model), relationships (labeled links between households, markets, and commons), and perspectives (contrasting child, manager, and resident views), with four student activities for practice.

## Commentary

### In short

A section of an open-access secondary-school economics textbook that teaches DSRP as the foundational framework for systems thinking, crediting Cabrera and working each of the four patterns through economic examples.

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

**Added** 2026-09-12

**How to cite this** Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann (2026). Regenerative Economics Textbook, Section S.2: Systems Thinking Patterns. Regenerative Economics (open-access secondary-school textbook, regenerativeeconomics.earth).