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Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing - Theories, Histories and Policies (Hardcover)
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Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing - Theories, Histories and Policies (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
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Cultures of Sustainability and Wellbeing: Theories, Histories and
Policies examines and assesses the interdependence between
sustainability and wellbeing by drawing attention to humans as
producers and consumers in a post-human age. Why wellbeing ought to
be regarded as essential to sustainable development is explored
first from multifocal theoretical perspectives encompassing
sociology, literary criticism and socioeconomics, second in
relation to institutions and policies, and third with a focus on
specific case studies across the world. Wellbeing and its
sustainability are defined in terms of biological and cultural
diversity; stages of advancement in science and technology; notions
of citizenship and agency; geopolitical scenarios and environmental
conditions. Wellbeing and sustainability call for enquiries into
human capacities in ontological, epistemological and practical
terms. A view of sustainability that revolves around material and
immaterial wellbeing is based on the assumption that life quality,
comfort, happiness, security, safety always posit humans as both
recipients and agents. Risk and resilience in contemporary
societies define the intrinsically human ability to make and
consume, to act and adapt, driving the search for and fruition of
wellbeing. How to sustain the dual process of exploitation and
regeneration is a task that requires integrated approaches from the
sciences and the humanities, jointly tracing a worldwide
cartography with clear localisations. This book will be of great
interest to students and researchers interested in sustainability
through conceptual and empirical approaches including social
theory, literary and cultural studies, environmental economics and
human ecology, urbanism and cultural geography.
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