Christen, Marius and Seele, Peter and Zapf, Lucas. (2018) Sustainability's promise of salvation? A Kuhnian reconstruction of sustainability from resource management to contingency management. In: Cultural Sustainability. Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences. London, pp. 109-124.
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Abstract
We analyse conceptions of sustainability from a Kuhnian perspective Assuming that the formation of sustainability can be seen as a conceptual paradigm shift we analyse conceptions of sustainability from a Kuhnian perspective. As Kuhn describes it, there are competing 'paradigm candidates' in the origin of paradigm formation. On this basis, we identify three 'candidates' of sustainability-world views that offer solutions to different problems: Resource crisis, environmental crisis , and system crisis . We then propose a fourth paradigm candidate responding to the more recent multi-crisis that also affects the sense-making of the individual. We call this new candidate contingency management referring to the 'salvation' associated to the concept of sustainability. Finally, we present sustainability in a process model and discuss theoretical and practical implications of the conceptualized sustainability paradigm candidates.
Faculties and Departments: | 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Fachbereich Nachhaltigkeitsforschung 04 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften > Fachbereich Nachhaltigkeitsforschung > Nachhaltigkeitsforschung (Burger) |
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UniBasel Contributors: | Christen, Marius |
Item Type: | Book Section, refereed |
Book Section Subtype: | Further Contribution in a Book |
Publisher: | Routledge |
ISBN: | 978-0-8153-5754-4 |
Series Name: | Routledge environmental humanities |
Note: | Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Book item |
Last Modified: | 06 May 2019 06:45 |
Deposited On: | 06 May 2019 06:45 |
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