Working Group on Place Wisdom

Creative Perspectives on Sustainable Nature–Culture Relationships

The latest book arising from the SIEF Place Wisdom Working Group, Creative Perspectives on Sustainable Nature–Culture Relationships, edited by Ullrich Kockel, Riina Haanpää, Mairéad Nic Craith and Katriina Siivonen, is due to be published as part of the Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development series.

The book draws on current debates in multispecies studies, bringing together approaches from environmental activism to community art practice and critical heritage studies. Focusing on ecological relationships underpinning the making of meaningful places, it combines theoretical exploration with case studies that raise themes, issues, and eco cultural practices that have relevance across the world. Contributors evaluate intangible cultural heritage and traditional ecological knowledge for their potential to augment sustainable development, thus encouraging the rethinking of sustainability as a human ecological concept indicating how new, locally rooted relationships with nature may create policy oriented pathways towards cultural sustainability transformation.

Ullrich Kockel, Riina Haanpää, Mairéad Nic Craith, Katriina Siivonen, Creative Perspectives on Sustainable Nature – Culture Relationships Beyond the Anthropocene, Routledge, 2026. ISBN: 9781041215875, 228 pages.

For further details, see https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Culture-and-Sustainable-Development/book-series/RSCSD