{"title":"Exclusion and Inequality","authors":"R. Toivanen, M. Kmak","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter illustrates how certain actions for guaranteeing a good life for one part of the population can result in catastrophic consequences for another. Examples of migrants within the European Union and Roma peoples in Finland help depict this context.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124865249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Rights","authors":"R. Toivanen, D. Cambou","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-4","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter takes up the status of the human in terms of rights and law. Surveying the status of human rights law within the framework of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the authors highlight the cultural context of Arctic Indigenous peoples, namely the Sámi people in Finland. The lack of legal and political agency is a barrier not only to sustainable and culturally desirable livelihoods, as the authors detail: this legal situation enables ongoing extractivist projects in the form of mining and forestry.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121766430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism Platforms","authors":"Salla Jokela, P. Minoia","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-16","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter discusses a form of platform urbanism that has emerged with peer-to-peer digital tourist platforms like Airbnb and resulted in the touristification of regions. Even though sustainable development promotes ecotourism as a way of integrating local livelihoods into transnational commerce and cultural exchange, this chapter illustrates how the movement of external flows of people, capital, consumption—and narrations—into local areas rapidly transforms urban space and culture.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128225431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Education","authors":"Tuija Veintie, Johanna Hohenthal","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-5","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter illustrates the transformative role that national education policies can play in working toward Sustainable Development Goals. Offering comparative examples from the ‘pluri-national state’ of Ecuador and the ‘Northern European welfare state’ of Finland, it highlights the potential of teaching languages, integrative thinking practices, and cultural alternatives to high-consumption lifestyles.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125665127","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience","authors":"H. Thorén","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter extends the concept of resilience past its popular use and abuse to consider the deeper set of concepts that shape understandings of stability and instability in ecological relationships. Here, bundles of supporting concepts, each carrying implicit values, threaten to turn a multitude of useful ideas into a mess of conflicting frameworks. While resilience is a concept that developed out of the empirical grounds of ecology, it becomes, for sustainability science, a ‘term of art’ that expands to encompass the qualitative discourses of the humanistic sciences.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132626901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-anxiety","authors":"Panu Pihkala","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the rise of eco-anxiety, which manifests not only in popular individual and group psychologies, but also impacts the work of professional researchers who live on a daily basis with a knowledge of the unsustainable present. While this creates guilt, worry, and anger, the author counterposes a hope for a ‘practical anxiety’, which might create a bridge between professionals and the public.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128718323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Traditional Ecological Knowledge","authors":"C. Casi, H. Guttorm, P. Virtanen","doi":"10.33134/hup-14-13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33134/hup-14-13","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter argues that the concept of Traditional Ecological Knowlegde means more than the accumulated environmental knowledge and comprehension of natural phenomena. Rather, it is constituted by a set of evolving beliefs and practices that understands its own dynamic relationship with other beings in the environment. The examples of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) illustrated in this chapter include Apurinã and Manchineri communities in Brazilian Amazonia, and Sámi communities in the Arctic.","PeriodicalId":242862,"journal":{"name":"Situating Sustainability: A Handbook of Contexts and Concepts","volume":"50 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126003362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}