dc.contributor.author | Du Plessis, Anél | |
dc.contributor.author | Rautenbach, Christa | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-29T10:05:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-03-29T10:05:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Du Plessis, A.A. & Rautenbach, C. Legal perspectives on the role of culture in sustainable development. 2010. Potchefstroom electronic law journal (PELJ) = Potchefstroomse elektroniese regsblad (PER), 13(1):27-71 [http://www.nwu.ac.za/p-per/index.html] | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1727-3781 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4041 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article introduces some legal perspectives on the role of culture in
sustainable development. The authors agree that sustainable development has
been designed as an environmental concept but that room exists for the more
prominent inclusion of some form(s) of the notion "culture" in the sustainable
development equation. It is shown that the fluid nature and meaning of
"culture" may require a distinction between the role of "culture" per se and the
role of "cultural governance" in the sustainable development context. It is
suggested that "cultural governance" as a notion may be more distinct and
exact than "culture" itself. The more functional notion of "good cultural
governance" is preferred as a benchmark in the sustainable development
equation, with the implication that cultural governance occurs in accordance
with a certain standard. This standard is briefly considered by looking at the
meaning of good cultural governance as a notion that encompasses both
cultural governance and good governance generally. The article is set in the
South African context but also invokes some law and policy developments internationally, regionally and sub-regionally to depict how issues of culture
have been infiltrating the sustainable development discourse and to distil some
of the substantive benchmarks for good cultural governance. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Faculty of Law | en |
dc.subject | Sustainable development | en |
dc.subject | Role of culture in sustainable development | en |
dc.subject | Culture | en |
dc.subject | Definition of culture | en |
dc.subject | Environmental law | en |
dc.subject | Cultural governance | en |
dc.subject | Good cultural governance | en |
dc.title | Legal perspectives on the role of culture in sustainable development | en |
dc.type | Article | en |