Regenerative Futures, Imagining Alternatives, Transforming Systems

Wed 30 Sep – Sat 3 Oct 2026

Massey University, Wellington

About the conference

The conference will bring together people from government, education and research, practitioners, consultancies, and NGO and community sectors, helping solve problems at local-regional-global scales drawing from ecological economics and its transdisciplinary perspectives. Keynotes include Professor Bob Costanza, Professor Anitra Nelson, and Professor Erik Gomez-Baggethun. We invite participants working in the following areas and more:

• Beyond Growth and Wellbeing

• Indigenous and First Nations Economies

• Island and Ocean Resilience

• Intergenerational Justice and Stewardship

• Climate, Cities, and the Built Environment

• Ecological Limits, Governance, and Policy

• Transformative Knowledge, Education, Methods, and Technology and

• Other Issues in Ecological Economics.

More information can be found on the conference link.

Submit your abstract by 14 August 

Please submit your abstracts and ideas on this Google form. They suggest preparing a word document and copying across into the form. Include a title, theme & sub theme alignment, authors/persons and affiliations,150 word abstract, 6 keywords and 100 word bio for each author. Abstract submission can be used for presentation, paper (refereed or not), or idea on a special session, panel, field trip and other activity or idea of any kind. They particularly welcome new and novel ideas including decision-making and community engagement, performance, music, art and other creative approaches.

*Not affiliated with Te Uru Institute for Sustainability