sustainability

Feeling Flight Shame? Try Quitting Air Travel and Catch a Sail Boat

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 2 October 2019 / Comments Off on Feeling Flight Shame? Try Quitting Air Travel and Catch a Sail Boat

Carbon emissions from international air travel show no sign of abating. In the absence of a tax on jet fuel, are sail boats the best way to travel the world sustainably?

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What Can the Arts Do in the Face of Climate Change?

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 1 October 2019 / Comments Off on What Can the Arts Do in the Face of Climate Change?

The arts helped shine a light on issues in the past, and now in the 21st century, it could help define global ecological citizenship.

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Plain Sailing: How Traditional Methods Could Deliver Zero-Emission Shipping

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 28 May 2018 / Comments Off on Plain Sailing: How Traditional Methods Could Deliver Zero-Emission Shipping

Sailing ships have been around for thousands of years – long before the advent of fossil fuels. With the global shipping sector now attempting to cut its greenhouse gas emissions, could sails be due a renaissance?

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Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development (2018, Routledge)

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 15 May 2018 / Comments Off on Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development (2018, Routledge)

This book contributes to a better understanding of the role of culture in achieving sustainability, focusing on the particular roles for cultural policy in this context.

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Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 28 February 2017 / Comments Off on Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development

Many people and organisations argue there is an intrinsically positive link between culture and sustainability. We argue not. Though we propose four strategic paths through which connections can be strengthened and put to use.

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Introduction: Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 28 February 2017 / Comments Off on Introduction: Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development

Sustainable development has long conceptual roots, and international organisations have played a significant role in articulating the meaning of the term and the content of the dominant discourses. This article and special issue examine culture and sustainable development in ways that articulate and contemplate different roles for cultural policy.

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Culture and Sustainable Development

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 15 July 2015 / Comments Off on Culture and Sustainable Development

UNESCO’s 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions include explicit reference to sustainability. But what does the term mean in this text?

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Culture In, For and As Sustainable Development

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 1 May 2015 / Comments Off on Culture In, For and As Sustainable Development

This report defines and describes the three roles of culture in sustainable development identified by the research network “Investigating Cultural Sustainability” and illustrates them with real-life cases.

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Real Sustainable Development Requires Change Through Culture

By Christiaan De Beukelaer / 30 September 2014 / Comments Off on Real Sustainable Development Requires Change Through Culture

The United Nations are close to adopting the Sustainable Development Goals. What role will culture play?

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