Strengthening Sensory Sustainability Science—Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Harald Heinrichs
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Harald Heinrichs: Institute for Sustainability Governance, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: sustainability science; sensory studies; arts-based research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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