Illustrations

Sustainable Futures presents the results of a worldwide search for sustainable cultures: past, present and future. A sustainable culture is understood as one that incorporates enviromental sustainability and promotes human dignity for all The editors, Marko Ulvilaa and Jarna pasanen take a innovative look at the dynamics of enviromental problems from a cultural class perspective.They define three cultural classes-over-coming, sustainable and struggling-and describe different future scenarios for each of them.The growth imperative and hierarchie structures are define as root causes for unsustainability, and sustainable alternatives are presented in the book