| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge environmental humanities |
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Routledge environmental humanities.
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| Contents |
Part I. Concepts of culture and cultural sustainability. Introduction / Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl -- Culture and sustainable development from a UN perspective / Michael Gerber -- The future of cultural heritage and its challenges / Aleida Assmann -- Cultural sustainability in times of cultural genocide / Wolfgang Huber -- Sustainable development and the concept of culture : an ethical view / Torsten Meireis -- Part II. Philosophy, sociology, economics and cultural sustainability. Sustainability and modernisation in conflict : on Roger Scruton's conservative green philosophy / Anton Leist -- Culture, consumption and sustainability in a sociological perspective / Ulf Liebe -- Social happiness as a cultural value : an analysis of shared values for ecosystem assessment / Galit P. Wellner -- The challenges of cultural sustainability on an (inter)planetary scale / Andreas Losch -- Sustainability's promise of salvation? : A Kuhnian reconstruction of sustainability from resource management to contingency management / Marius Christen, Peter Seele, Lucas Zapf -- Part III. The arts, literature and cultural sustainability : theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives. Culture and the arts in sustainable development : rethinking sustainability research / Sacha Kagan -- Cultural ecology and the sustainability of literature / Hubert Zapf -- An entangled history of environmental and cultural sustainability : satirical reflections on the German forest and the German oak as resources of cultural energy / Evi Zemanek -- The cultural sustainability of Victorian waste / Ursula Kluwick -- The moral dilemma of unsustainability : eco-dystopian fiction as cultural critique / Alexa Weik von Mossner -- A tale of love and fallout : Lauren Redniss' graphic narrative and the ecological imaginary / Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl -- Sustainability, eco-ekphrasis and the ethics of literary description / Gabriele Rippl -- Ecogames : playing to save the planet / Joost Raessens -- Part IV. Where do we go from here? Conclusion / Torsten Meireis and Gabriele Rippl |
| Summary |
If the political and social benchmarks of sustainability and sustainable development are to be met, ignoring the role of the humanities and social, cultural and ethical values is highly problematic. People's worldviews, beliefs and principles have an immediate impact on how they act and should be studied as cultural dimensions of sustainability. Collating contributions from internationally renowned theoreticians of culture and leading researchers working in the humanities and social sciences, this volume presents an in-depth, interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability and the public visibility of such research. Beginning with a discussion of the concept of cultural sustainability, it goes on to explore its interaction with philosophy, theology, sociology, economics, arts and literature. In doing so, the book develops a much needed concept of 'culture' that can be adapted to various disciplines and applied to research on sustainability. Addressing an important gap in sustainability research, this book will be of great interest to academics and students of sustainability and sustainable development, as well as those studying sustainability within the humanities and social sciences, such as cultural studies, ethics, theology, sociology, literature and history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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Sustainable development -- Social aspects
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Social sciences.
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Humanities.
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Social Sciences
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social sciences.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- General.
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Arts.
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Cultural Dimensions.
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Cultural Studies.
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Culture.
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History.
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Humanities.
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Literature.
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Philosophy.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology.
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Sustainability.
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Theology.
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Sustainable development -- Social aspects
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Social sciences
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Humanities
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Cultural policy
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Sustainability
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Sustainable development
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Meireis, Torsten, editor
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Rippl, Gabriele. editor
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| LC no. |
2018038835 |
| ISBN |
9781351124300 |
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1351124307 |
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9781351124287 |
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1351124285 |
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9781351124294 |
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1351124293 |
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9781351124270 |
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1351124277 |
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