Titlebook: Culture and Sustainability; Exploring Stability Janet Stephenson Book‘‘‘‘‘‘‘‘ 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023 su

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9e, different meanings depending on disciplines and their theoretical orientations, and different fundamental conceptualisations between Western and non-Western cultures. This chapter focuses on unpicking these divergences because unless they are visible and named, they will continue to handicap the

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9 sustainability. It has been extensively tested through research on a wide range of sustainability problems. The core of the framework—which conveys the interactions between motivators, activities and materiality, together called the cultural ensemble—reflects widely shared understandings of culture

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9icial if cultural ensembles have positive sustainability outcomes, but problematic where they do not. This chapter draws from research that has used the cultures framework to examine cultural stasis and the mechanisms by which cultural ensembles endure. It starts with examples of culture’s role in s

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9processes of cultural change. It explores how change can be initiated through adjustments in external influences, and/or internal (actor-driven) adjustments of a feature of their cultural ensemble. Cultural learning through observations, bodily experiences and social interactions can support the ado

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9of accounting for broader influences on behaviour than economic maximisation and broadly shared psychological traits. In a world where ‘information deficit’, ‘rational actors’ and ‘nudge theory’ dominate policy conversations, culture offers more nuanced understandings and reveals new opportunities f

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09348-9an be learnt from cultures that have already traversed this journey. There will necessarily be myriad cultural responses that are unique to people and context, and close attention must be paid to powerful unsustainable cultureswhich force the less powerful to continue harmful patterns of consumption