[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

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

Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann, 2026, Regenerative Economics (open-access secondary-school textbook, regenerativeeconomics.earth) — Education

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

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.

## 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.

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

[Source](https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools/regenerative-economics-for-secondary-schools)