Anita Kangas, Nancy Duxbury, & Christiaan De Beukelaer, "Introduction: cultural policies for sustainable development"; International Journal of Cultural Policy 23(2). "Cultural sustainability tends to be defined in two ways. On one hand, it refers to the sustainability of cultural and artistic practices and patterns, including, for example, identity formation and expression, cultural heritage conservation, and a sense of cultural continuity. On the other hand, cultural sustainability also refers to the role of cultural traits and actions to inform and compose part of the pathways towards more sustainable societies. Culture lies at the core of practices and beliefs that can support or inspire the necessary societal transition to more sustainable living. These narratives, values, and actions contribute to the emergence of a more culturally sensitive understanding of sustainable development and to clarifying the roles of art, culture, and cultural policy in this endeavor."
agenda21culture.net
"2002-2004". Culture 21. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
Agenda 21 for culture, adopted 8 May 2004. Culture 21, edited 31 January 2008.
Antonios Vlassis, "Culture in the post-2015 development agenda: the anatomy of an international mobilization"; Third World Quarterly 36(9), 2015; DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2015.1052064.
fourthpillar.biz
This issue has been championed by Australian researcher and activist Jon Hawkes (www.fourthpillar.biz) in his book The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability. Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning.
Nancy Duxbury & Sharon Jeannotte, "Global Cultural Governance Policy"; Chapter 21 in The Ashgate Research Companion to Planning and Culture; London: Ashgate, 2013.
