Dessein / Battaglini / Horlings Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development

Theories and practices of territorialisation
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-57004-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dessein, Joost

Battaglini, Elena

Horlings, Lummina

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The role of culture in territorialisation Lummina G. Horlings, Elena Battaglini and Joost Dessein 2. ‘Sustainable Places’: Place as a Vector of Culture. Two cases from Mexico Michael Redclift and David Manuel-Navarrete 3. Territorialisation and the Assemblage of Rural Place: Examples from Canada and New Zealand Michael Woods 4. The Worldview and Symbolic Dimension in Territorialisation: How Human Values Play a Role in a Dutch Neighbourhood Lummina Horlings 5. Nature and Culture in Territorialisation Processes: Challenges and Insights from a Case-study in Serbia Elena Battaglini and Marjia Babovic 6. Territoriality as Appropriation of Space: How ‘Engaging with Space’ Frames Sociality Leonardo Chiesi 7. Exploring Culture and Sustainability in Rural Finland Mari Kivitalo, Kaisu Kumpulainen and Katriina Soini 8. Territorialisation in Practice: The Case of Saffron Cultivation in Morocco Joost Dessein 9. Is There a Place for Place? How Spaces and Places are Included in the Measures of Sustainable Development and Wellbeing Annalisa Cicerchia 10. Making Territory through Cultural Mapping and Co-Design. How Community Practices Promote Territorialisation Leonardo Chiesi and Paolo Costa 11. How to Scale a Territory? Experiences from the U.S. Frans Padt 12. Culture matters. Planning Processes and Approaches towards Urban Resilience in European Cities and Urban Regions: Two Examples from Brussels and Ljubljana Jenny Atmanagara 13. Re-Creating and Celebrating Place(s) in Designated Space(s): The Case of Wales Eifiona Thomas Lane, Siân Pierce, Arwel Jones and Ian Harris 14. Local Maize Practices and the Culture of Seed in Luoland, West Kenya Paul Hebinck, Nelson Mango and Hellen Kimanthi 15. Les Jardins Partagés in Paris: Cultivating Space, Community and Sustainable Way of Life Monica Caggiano 16. A ‘European Valley’ in South America: Regionalisation, colonisation, and environmental inequalities in Santa Catarina, Brazil Luciano Félix Florit, Lilian Blanck de Oliveira, Reinaldo Matias Fleuri and Rodrigo Wartha 17. Conclusions: Territorialisation, a Challenging Concept for Framing Regional Development Elena Battaglini, Lummina G. Horlings and Joost Dessein

Über Autor(innen)

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.