Restorative Development

Yorth Group applies its proven, proprietary, system-based restorative development approach where environmental, social, and economic performances are interconnected and synergistic, yielding net-positive outcomes across these three key economic foundations simultaneously.  

Restorative development transforms liabilities into assets through closed-loop industrial symbiosis and local resource management, ensuring inclusive, equity-driven economies. It presents a fundamental change in how infrastructure, systems, and governance are measured, managed, and rewarded. Rather than incremental improvements that achieve temporary compliance, Yorth recognizes the structural changes needed to achieve future compliance and competitiveness.

Today’s cities and urban areas are facing a formidable challenge: 60% of urban infrastructure that is needed by 2050 does not yet exist. Current infrastructure is showing its age – built on a last-century model and not prepared to withstand the challenges of climate change, rising social and economic disparities, and the finite resource of a linear economy. 

For companies and industry, a transition towards the circular economy provides a shift to a new growth paradigm that benefits business, society, and the environment. In the process, companies risk making improvements only in their traditional silos and miss the synergies of a holistic approach which may require collaboration across industries and with the private sector. Yorth’s holistic approach eliminates this risk.

Industry Terminology  

  • Restorative development  

    • A systems-based development approach where environmental, social, and economic performances are interconnected and synergistic, yielding net-positive outcomes across the environment, social system, and economy simultaneously. Restorative development transforms liabilities into assets through closed-loop industrial symbiosis and local resource management, ensuring inclusive, equity-driven economies. It presents a fundamental change in how infrastructure, systems, and governance are measured, managed, and rewarded.

  • Circular economy  

    • A circular economy is restorative and regenerative by design and aims to keep products, components, and materials at their highest utility and value at all times. It is a holistic approach to value creation, where the system-wide effects of an action are net-positive. Materials are maintained at their highest values through multiple lifecycles. 

  • Digital access  

    • A full digitalization of the economy, including intelligent and smart city, smart mobility, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain.

  • Regenerative urbanism  

    • For Yorth, regenerative urbanism is an approach to urban development that brings nature and connectivity between places where people live, work, and play. It is a development where all parts of the urban design come together synergistically to create positive outcomes while eliminating negative externalities. In regenerative urbanism, the value and synergies between all parts are understood. Terms like “waste” and “sunk cost” do not exist.

  • Inclusive economy  

    • A fully inclusive economy does not have economic leakages from social or environmental costs. Residents and industries alike have access to the resources and systems they need for quality of life and the highest levels of industrial competitiveness.

  • Net-zero 

    • Net-zero is a neutral position. The total impact is neither negative nor positive. Equity is neither gained nor lost at this performance level.

  • Net-positive  

    • Restorative performance is a net-positive position. There are measurable positive impacts at the system level and equity is gained.