Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development

Theories and practices of territorialisation
Herausgeber: Battaglini, Elena; Horlings, Lummina; Dessein, Joost

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture, sustainability and regional change through the concept of 'territorialisation'. This new concept describes the dynamics and processes in the context of regional development, driven by collective human agency that stretches beyond localities and marked-off regional boundaries. This book launches the concept of 'territorialisation' by exploring how the natural environment and culture are constitutive of each other. This concept allows us to study the characterisation of the natural assets of a place, the means by which the natural environment and culture interact, and how communities assign meaning to local assets, add functions and ascribe rules of how to use space. By highlighting the time-space dimension in the use and consumption of resources, territorialisation helps to frame the concept and grasp the meaning of sustainable regional development. Drawing on an international range of case studies, the book addresses both conceptual issues and practical applications of 'territorialisation' in a range of contexts, forms, and scales. The book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduates in sustainable development, environmental studies, and regional development and planning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9781138830080
• ISBN-10: 1138830089
• Artikelnr.: 42799878

Autorenporträt

Joost Dessein is Scientific Coordinator of the Social Sciences Unit of the Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO), Belgium and Visiting Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Ghent University, Belgium. Elena Battaglini, Senior Researcher, manages the Research Area on Environment & Regional Development of Istituto di Ricerche Economiche e Sociali (IRES), Italy. Member of the Scientific Board of the Italian Sociology Association (AIS), Section Environment and Territory. Lummina Horlings is Assistant Professor at the Rural Sociology Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The role of culture in territorialisation 2. 'Sustainable
Places': Place as a Vector of Culture. Two cases from Mexico 3.
Territorialisation and the Assemblage of Rural Place: Examples from Canada
and New Zealand 4. The Worldview and Symbolic Dimension in
Territorialisation: How Human Values Play a Role in a Dutch Neighbourhood
5. Nature and Culture in Territorialisation Processes: Challenges and
Insights from a Case-study in Serbia 6. Territoriality as Appropriation of
Space: How 'Engaging with Space' Frames Sociality 7. Exploring Culture and
Sustainability in Rural Finland 8. Territorialisation in Practice: The Case
of Saffron Cultivation in Morocco 9. Is There a Place for Place? How Spaces
and Places are Included in the Measures of Sustainable Development and
Wellbeing 10. Making Territory through Cultural Mapping and Co-Design. How
Community Practices Promote Territorialisation 11. How to Scale a
Territory? Experiences from the U.S. 12. Culture matters. Planning
Processes and Approaches towards Urban Resilience in European Cities and
Urban Regions: Two Examples from Brussels and Ljubljana 13. Re-Creating and
Celebrating Place(s) in Designated Space(s): The Case of Wales 14. Local
Maize Practices and the Culture of Seed in Luoland, West Kenya 15. Les
Jardins Partagés in Paris: Cultivating Space, Community and Sustainable Way
of Life 16. A 'European Valley' in South America: Regionalisation,
colonisation, and environmental inequalities in Santa Catarina, Brazil 17.
Conclusions: Territorialisation, a Challenging Concept for Framing Regional
Development