Strengthening Sensory Sustainability Science - Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

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Sustainability science is marked by a quarter century of conceptual and methodological development. Based on innovative approaches, such as transformative transdisciplinarity, sustainability science makes the claim to contribute solution-oriented knowledge to sustainable development. Despite successful expansion and promising experiences, there are limitations to be considered. This article argues that the multisensorial reality of human life in socio-material practices has not been adequately captured in sustainability science. Theoretical approaches addressing the sensoriality and corporality of human existence as well as methodological approaches of ethnography and arts-based research to access relevant human dimensions beyond the cognitive are discussed, and the perspective of sensory sustainability science is sketched
Original languageEnglish
Article number769
JournalSustainability
Volume11
Issue number3
Number of pages16
ISSN2071-1050
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Publication statusPublished - 01.02.2019

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