Biocultural approaches to sustainability

A systematic review of the scientific literature

verfasst von

Jan Hanspach, Lisbeth Jamila Haider, Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Natalie M. Gulsrud, Christopher M. Raymond, Mario Torralba, Berta Martín-López, Claudia Bieling, María García-Martín, Christian Albert, Thomas H. Beery, Nora Fagerholm, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, Annika Drews-Shambroom, Tobias Plieninger

Abstract

Current sustainability challenges demand approaches that acknowledge a plurality of human–nature interactions and worldviews, for which biocultural approaches are considered appropriate and timely. This systematic review analyses the application of biocultural approaches to sustainability in scientific journal articles published between 1990 and 2018 through a mixed methods approach combining qualitative content analysis and quantitative multivariate methods. The study identifies seven distinct biocultural lenses, that is, different ways of understanding and applying biocultural approaches, which to different degrees consider the key aspects of sustainability science—inter- and transdisciplinarity, social justice and normativity. The review suggests that biocultural approaches in sustainability science need to move from describing how nature and culture are co-produced to co-producing knowledge for sustainability solutions, and in so doing, better account for questions of power, gender and transformations, which has been largely neglected thus far. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

Externe Organisation(en)

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Stockholm University
Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC)
Københavns Universitet
Universität Helsinki
Universität Kassel
Universität Hohenheim
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Kristianstad University
University of Turku
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Typ

Übersichtsarbeit

Journal

People and Nature

Band

2

Seiten

643-659

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

2575-8314

Publikationsdatum

03.09.2020

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Ökologie, Evolution, Verhaltenswissenschaften und Systematik

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10120 (Zugang: Offen)