SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : RESOURCES
Our cultural diversity
Our Creative Diversity is the result of a three-year study by the World Commision for Culture and Development. It responds to a crucial question: Is culture the last frontier in development? The book provides fresh perspectives on the interactions between culture and development and puts forward proposals to help the world's communities forge their own paths towards development without losing their distinctive identities. UNESCO, 1996.
UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
The Declaration raises cultural diversity to the level of “the common heritage of humanity”,“as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature” and makes its defence an ethical imperative indissociable from respect for the dignity of the individual. UNESCO, 2001.
The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability : Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning
‘The Fourth Pillar’ provides a clear definition of culture analyses its function within the emerging new planning paradigms and proposes practical measures for the integration of a cultural perspective into the public sphere. Its key conclusion is that a whole-of-government cultural framework, operating in parallel with social, environmental and economic frameworks, is essential for the achievement of a sustainable and healthy society. Jon Hawkes, 2001.
Culture et développement durable
Notice of the former French Commission on Sustainable Development on the links between culture and sustainable development –French only – 2002.
Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development
This booklet is the summary of a high-level roundtable on "Cultural Diversity and Biodiversity for Sustainable Development", convened by UNEP together with UNESCO during the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, 2002.
Agenda 21 for culture
The Agenda 21 for culture is the first document with a worldwide mission that advocates establishing the groundwork of an undertaking by cities and local governments for cultural development. United Cities and Local Governments, 2004.
La culture et le développement durable
Notes from a lecture given by Mr. Laurent Laplante Thursday, October 6, 2005 for the Québec network Villes et villages d’art et de patrimoine –French only.
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions
The Article 13 – Integration of culture in sustainable development – states that parties shall endeavour to integrate culture in their development policies at all levels for the creation of conditions conducive to sustainable development and, within this framework, foster aspects relating to the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions (UNESCO, 2005).
Culture as a key Dimension of sustainability: Exploring Concepts, Themes and Models
This three-part paper begins with an overview of how sustainability and community development inform emerging views of sustainable community development. Part two outlines ten prevailing themes in the emerging cultural sustainability literature. Part three presents three models of sustainability that include culture as a significant component: the four-pillar model of sustainability, the four well-beings of community sustainability, and the medicine wheel approach to sustainability. Nancy Duxbury and Eileen Gillette, Creative City Network of Canada, 2007.
Le rôle de la culture dans le développement durable
Lecture from Philippe Madec, French architect and urban planner.
Audio link –French only
Culture and sustainable development: examples of institutional innovation and proposal of a new cultural policy profile
This study presents a number of examples of local institutional innovation which bring cultural actors and the sustainable development paradigm closer together, with special attention being paid to those processes which work on cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. The study advocates including a cultural perspective into all public policies for sustainable development, that is to say it encourages the concept that promotes culture as the fourth pillar of sustainable development. United Cities and Local Governments, 2009.
Notre culture au cœur du développement durable
Action Plan 2009-2013 Sustainable Development of the Québec Ministry of Culture, Communications and the Status of Women. The objective of the approach is the development of an Agenda 21 for culture in Québec, to encourage communities to take ownership of cultural issues related to sustainable development – French only – Ministère de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition féminine du Québec, 2009.
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : LINK
Réseau culture21
France’s Observatoire des politiques culturelles (Observatory for Cultural Policies) has created a website to fuel discussion and help promote Agenda 21 for culture and the emergence of measures linking culture with sustainable development. The site also contains a resource centre, interviews with culture professionals and cultural news – French only.
Agenda 21 for culture
Official Website of the Agenda 21 for culture includes many documents on sustainable development, local cultural policies, cultural indicators and cultural diversity.
Fourth Pillar: Cultural action/Social change
A blog by Jon Hawkes, author of the essay The Fourth Pillar of Sustainability: Culture’s Essential Role in Public Planning.
The Hawkes library
Virtual Library including several written and oral communications by Jon Hawkes, in addition to notes, tables and graphs.
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