Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development

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.

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