Cultivating cultural sustainability in farming practices
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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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.
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