Cultivating cultural sustainability in farming practices
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to explore agricultural practices and their sustainability, in order to analyse the essence and dynamics of culture in relation to sustainable development. We ask, what should sustain in culture and what does culturally sustainable development entail? We identified three core qualities of sustainability in farming: fertility, diversity and continuity. They are bound together and shaped by rationalization related to the feasible functioning of the farming system and appreciation judging the desirability and quality of the practices. We discuss the ways the model explaining the sustainability of agricultural practices can be used to inform the essence of culture in sustainable development.
Main Authors
Format
Books
Book part
Published
2018
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Routledge
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201906143233Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Parent publication ISBN
978-1-138-65049-7
Review status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625294
Language
English
Published in
Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
Is part of publication
Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface
Citation
- Soini, K., & Huttunen, S. (2018). Cultivating cultural sustainability in farming practices. In I. Birkeland, R. Burton, C. Parra, & K. Siivonen (Eds.), Cultural Sustainability and the Nature-Culture Interface (pp. 35-48). Routledge. Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315625294
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