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Editorial

Ignacio Ayestaran, Gerhard Banse et Oliver Parodi

Preface

Part 1. Methodological Questions, Conceptual Debates and Frameworks

Armin Grunwald

Conflict-resolution in the Context of Sustainable Development

Naturalistic versus Culturalistic Approaches

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Sustainability as a Conflict-generating Vision
• 3 Approaches to Conflict Resolution
• 3.1 Naturalistic Approach
• 3.2 Culturalistic Approach
• 4 Conclusions

Robert Hauser et Gerhard Banse

Culture and Culturality

Approaching a Multi-faceted Concept

• 1 Concepts of Culture – The Plurality of the Concept of Culture
• 2 History – The Genesis of the Concept of Culture
• 3 Concepts of Culture – Cultural Concepts in Current Research Practice
• 4 Concepts of Culture at the Macro- and Microlevels
• 5 An Evolutionist Concept of Culture
• 6 The Difference-based Concept of Culture by Hansen
• 7 Areas of Standardization
• 8 Culture and Sustainability

Ricardo Rozzi et Alexandria Poole

Habitats – Habits – Inhabitants

A Biocultural Triad to Promote Sustainable Cultures

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Biocultural Diversity: Interrelations of Human Languages, Cultures, and Regional Ecosystems
• 2.1 Humans as Components of Ecosystems and Biodiversity: Cultural Landscapes
• 2.2 Humans’ Biocultural Lenses
• 3 Amerindian and Scientific Perspectives of the Inextricable Links of Habitats, Habits, and Inhabitants
• 4 Loss of the Sustainability of Regional Communities by Disrupting Their Habitats and Habits
• 5 Losses of Biocultural Diversity
• 6 Formal Education: A Major Driver of Biocultural Homogenization
• 7 The Inextricable Links of Habitats, Habits, and Inhabitants for Sustainable Cultures

Oliver Parodi

Three Steps towards a Culture of Sustainability

• 1 Start and Finish: Culture and Sustainability
• 1.1 On the Concept of Culture
• 1.2 On the Concept of Sustainability
• 1.3 Culture and Sustainability – Some Links
• 1.4 Culture of Sustainability
• 2 Readjusting Basic Cultural Attitudes
• 2.1 Prevailing Separation of Culture and Nature
• 2.2 Present Separation of Technology and Nature
• 2.3 Outdated Separation
• 2.4 Correcting Misconceptions
• 3 Cultivation of Technology
• 3.1 From Making Culture Technical to Making Technology Cultural
• 3.2 Functioning Technology
• 3.3 Luhmann’s Effective Isolation
• 3.4 Implications of Functioning Cultured Technology
• 4 The Individual Side of Sustainability
• 4.1 Two Faces of a Culture of Sustainability: The Collective and the Individual
• 4.2 The Impact and the Attractiveness of the Idea of Sustainability
• 4.3 Existential Questions and Life Plans
• 4.4 Changing Awareness

Jürgen Kopfmüller

From the Cultural Dimension of Sustainable Development to the Culture of Sustainable Development

• 1 Introduction
• 2 “Culture” in the Key Documents of the Sustainability Debate
• 3 Culture in the Concepts of Sustainability
• 4 The Politico-societal Level
• 5 Conclusion and Perspectives

Karl Heinz Hörning

Culture and Sustainability in the Web of Everyday Life

Part 2. Epistemic Topics, Knowledge and Ethical Dilemmas

Renate Hübner

Material Goods and Individuation Processes

The Ethics of Consumerism between Mankind’s Potential for Transcendence and the Forces of Culture

• 1 Introduction and Structure of the Article
• 2 Individuation – Prerequisites and Processes in the Development of Identity
• 2.1 The Right to Free Development of the Personality
• Predispositions: The Potential for Transcendence – Differentiation towards Oneself
• Challenges: Exploiting the Potential for Transcendence
• 2.2 Processes of Individuation
• Frame or Reference: The Tension between the Inner and the Outer
• Process: The Tension between Security and Freedom
• The Dimension of Materiality: Tension between the Physical and the Non physical
• The physical-material pole
• The non-physical, immaterial pole, also the metaphysical pole
• 3 The Dialectics of Objects: The Potential for Identification and Self-expression
• 3.1 Producing Things – Individuation through Production
• 3.2 Using Objects – Individuation through Usage
• 3.3 Acquiring Things – Individualization through Retail Activity
• 3.4 Having things – Individuation through Ownership
• 4 Summary: Sustainable Consumption between Buying, Having, and Using
• 4.1 Buying and Throwing away – the Logic of Industrial Mass Production
• 4.2 Meaning – Coming and Going: The Problem of Sustainable Use of Goods

Larissa Krainer

On the Way to a Culture of Sustainable Decisions

• 1 The Concept of Culture Caught in a Web of Contradictions
• 2 The Concept of Culture in the Context of the Sustainability Debate
• 3 Culture in a Conflict among Scientific Disciplines
• 4 Comments on Culture as an Integral Part of Human Existence
• 5 About the Connection between Culture and Reflection
• 6 On the Way to Sustainable Decisions
• 7 A Sustainable Culture is a Deliberate Decision-making Culture

Konrad Ott

On Substantiating the Conception of Strong Sustainability

• 1 Historic Review
• 2 Observation and Participation: A Methodical Remark
• 3 Contributions of the Environmental Advisory Council (SRU) to the German Sustainability Debate
• 4 Problems of Justification
• 5 Arguments in Favour of “Strong” Sustainability
• 6 On How to Conclude
• 7 Result and Consequences

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

Cultural Heritage: Dilemmas of Preservation in the Midst of Change

• 1 Status Quo
• 1.1 UNESCO Conventions and Programmes Pertaining to Culture
• 1.2 Sensitization and Education Programme
• Higher Education’s Engagement with “Cultural Heritage”
• Research in the Realm of “Cultural Heritage and the Dynamics of Change”
• 2 Dilemmas of Preservation in the Midst of Change
• 2.1 The Internationalization of Memory
• 2.2 New Media and Memory
• 2.3 Heritage Industry: Cultural Tourism versus Ecological Sustainability
• 2.4 Local Interests versus World Cultural Heritage
• 2.5 Private versus Public Interests
• 3 The Outlook, and a Selection of Possible Questions

Ute Stoltenberg et Verena Holz

Education and Communication as Prerequisites for and Components of Sustainable Development

Reflections for Policies, Conceptual Work, and Theory, Based on Previous Practises

• 1 Social Perception and Reception of the Programme of Education for Sustainable Development
• 2 The Institutional Establishment of Education for Sustainable Development in Educational Domains
• 3 Current Challenges and Stimuli for Further Work on Education for Sustainable Development
• 3.1 Common Knowledge and Education for Sustainable Development
• 3.2 Value Orientation as a Foundation
• 3.3 Dealing with Complexity and Openness
• 4 Concluding Remarks

Teresa Kwiatkowska et Wojciech Szatzschneider

Sustainability, Uncertainty, and Environmental Ethics

• 1 Remarks about Sustainability
• 2 Private Morality and Public Policy
• 3 What Uncertainty Are We Talking About ?
• 4 A Step towards Realistic Answer

Ignacio Ayestaran

Science, Responsibility and Global Sustainability: Steps toward a New Ethical Paradigm?

• 1 Introduction: The Catastrophic Convergence and the Tropic of Chaos
• 2 Symptoms and Indicators of Global Change
• 3 Two Different Earth Ethics: the Heidegger-Lévinas Clash
• 4 Science, Responsibility, and Global Sustainability
• 5 Mondialization, Globalization and Universalisation
• 6 The Principle of Responsibility and the Culture of Sustainability

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