At Narara Ecovillage, we collaborate with leading researchers to explore the social, environmental, and economic benefits of sustainable community living. Our village serves as a real-world model for innovative research on resilience, regeneration, and connection. Below, you’ll find a collection of studies and papers that highlight key findings from our partnerships.

Plotting Our Progress: Evaluating our social, environmental & economic projects against: GEN impact goals UN SDGs & One Planet Living goals
The Wellbeing Economy NENA Conference November 2021
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With and beyond the circular economy: Virtuous cycles in an ecovillage
NENA Conference November Canberra 2023
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An investigation in the sustainable economic practices of ecovillages
University of Wollongong 2019
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Managing the tensions in the triple bottom line: A case study of Narara Ecovillage
ANZTSR conference Sydney November 2018
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Retail arrangements and load management opportunities for community owned embedded
networks. Case Study: Narara Ecovillage
UNSW 2015
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