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As contemporary socio-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity preservation have become more important, the three pillars concept has increasingly been used in planning and policy circles as a framework for analysis and action. However, the issue of how culture influences sustainability is still an underexplored theme. Understanding how culture can act as a resource to promote sustainability, rather than a barrier, is the key to the development of cultural sustainability. This book explores the interfaces between nature and culture through the perspective of cultural sustainability. A cultural perspective on environmental sustainability enables a renewal of sustainability discourse and practices across rural and urban landscapes, natural and cultural systems, stressing heterogeneity and complexity. The book focuses on the nature-culture interface conceptualised as a place where experiences, practices, policies, ideas and knowledge meet, are negotiated, discussed and resolved. Rather than looking for lost unities, or an imaginary view of harmonious relationships between humans and nature based in the past, it explores cases of interfaces that are context-sensitive and which consciously convey the problems of scale and time. While calling attention to a cultural or 'culturalised' view of the sustainability debate, this book questions the radical nature-culture dualism dominating positive modern thinking as well as its underlying view of nature as pre-given and independent from human life.

Series introduction Introduction: Culture, sustainability and the environmental realm Part 1: Livelihood cultures and practices 1. Pre-industrial conceptualisations of sustainability 2. Agri-cultural practices as sustainability narratives 3. Sustainable everyday culture from glocal archipelago culture 4. What can cultural sustainability learn from protected areas? 5. Culturally sustainable [agri]culture and bio-cultural diversity 6. Roots and wings. Creativity and the nature-culture interface Part 2: Policies and planning 7. Changing planning cultures for metropolitan sustainability 8. Government policies and Sami reindeer herding culture 9. Preserving cultural landscapes: a cultural sustainability perspective 10. Terraced landscape as sustainable agricultural heritage system 11. Potential contributions of tourism to culture and sustainability 12. Tourism and sustainable development in rural communities in the Black Sea coastline 13. Heritagisation and sustainability on the margins of human habitation Part 3: Methodologies 14. Narrative methodologies: The capability approach 15. Action competence methodologies: Museum environmental education 16. Media aesthetic methodologies: Analysing television natures 17. Participative methodologies: Building technologies with culture Conclusion: The nature-culture interface and sustainability