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# Systems of Provisioning and the Doughnut

van Dongen, 2025, 21st Century Economics — Economics

Patterns: [Distinctions](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/distinctions), [Systems](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/systems), [Relationships](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/relationships), [Perspectives](https://dsrpevidence.org/pattern/perspectives)

## In short

Van Dongen connects DSRP to Doughnut Economics and systems-of-provisioning analysis, arguing that the four-pattern framework helps learners define problems, examine system structure and relationships, and compare perspectives.

## What they found (results)

Provisioning systems give the doughnut a workable foundation for teaching, and the author names DSRP as the skill set that makes navigating that complexity possible, citing Systems Thinking Made Simple.

## What they set out to do (purpose)

An essay on how systems of provisioning — the frameworks by which societies actually meet human needs — fit inside Kate Raworth's doughnut economics model.

These researchers were not testing DSRP. The finding is theirs; the correspondence to DSRP is drawn by this site.

[Source](https://www.21steconomics.org/systems-of-provisioning-and-the-doughnut/)