Cultural Sustainability Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences 1st Edition Torsten Meireis (Editor)

Part I Concepts of culture and cultural sustainability

1 Introduction

2 Culture and sustainable development from a UN perspective

3 The future of cultural heritage and its challenges

4 Cultural sustainability in times of cultural genocide

5 Sustainable development and the concept of culture – an ethical view

Part II Philosophy, sociology, economics and cultural sustainability

6 Sustainability and modernisation in conflict: on Roger Scruton’s conservative green philosophy

7 Culture, consumption and sustainability in a sociological perspective

8 Social happiness as a cultural value: an analysis of shared values for ecosystem assessment

9 The challenges of cultural sustainability on an (inter)planetary scale

10 Sustainability’s promise of salvation?: A Kuhnian reconstruction of sustainability from resource management to contingency management

Part III The arts, literature and cultural sustainability: theoretical, historical and contemporary perspectives

11 Culture and the arts in sustainable development: rethinking sustainability research

12 Cultural ecology and the sustainability of literature

13 An entangled history of environmental and cultural sustainability: satirical reflections on the German forest and the German oak as resources of cultural energy

14 The cultural sustainability of Victorian waste

15 The moral dilemma of unsustainability: eco-dystopian fiction as cultural critique

16 A tale of love and fallout: Lauren Redniss’ graphic narrative and the ecological imaginary

17 Sustainability, eco-ekphrasis and the ethics of literary description

18 Ecogames: playing to save the planet

Part IV Where do we go from here?

19 Conclusion