Academic Papers
My research interests include gender sensitive urban planning and the use of regenerative design approaches for shaping cultural landscapes, eco-communities, mining cities, slums, transition and ghost towns. You are invited to explore my academic papers published in international and European journals since 2016.
Maximising the Edges of Natural and Human Systems: The Case for Sociotones.
Mapping the ‘Presency’ of Women in Cities.
A Competency Framework to Assess and Activate Education for Sustainable Development: Addressing the UN SDG 4.7 Challenge
Sustainability 2019, 11(10), 2832
Giangrande, N., White, R., East, M., Clarke, T., Jackson, R., Coste. M.S. & Lopes, G.P.
Sustainable entrepreneurship and the SDGs: Community‐led initiatives, the social solidarity economy and commons ecologies
Business Strategy and the Environment 2020, 30(1)
Ana M. Esteves, Audley Genus, Tom Henfrey, May East & Gil Penha-Lopes
Community-led approaches and interventions for the regeneration of abandoned towns in southern Italy.
Current thinking on sustainable human habitat: the Findhorn Ecovillage case
Rising cities: continuity, innovation and deliberation of Vauban District, Freiburg, Germany
Regenerative strategies for climate justice
Design for sustainable cultural landscapes - A whole-systems framework
Ecocycles Journal 2021, 7(1), 1–13.
May East., Ki Utara Pinheiro Gibsone & Bernard Combes
Community-led approaches and interventions for the regeneration of abandoned towns in southern Italy
