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  2. Cultural sustainability - Wikipedia

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    Cultural sustainability as it relates to sustainable development (or to sustainability), has to do with maintaining cultural beliefs, cultural practices, heritage conservation, culture as its own entity, and the question of whether or not any given cultures will exist in the future. [2]

  3. Cultural ecology - Wikipedia

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    Cultural ecology as developed by Steward is a major subdiscipline of anthropology. It derives from the work of Franz Boas and has branched out to cover a number of aspects of human society, in particular the distribution of wealth and power in a society, and how that affects such behaviour as hoarding or gifting (e.g. the tradition of the potlatch on the Northwest North American coast).

  4. Sustainability - Wikipedia

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    Sustainability is regarded as a "normative concept".[5] [22] [23] [2] This means it is based on what people value or find desirable: "The quest for sustainability involves connecting what is known through scientific study to applications in pursuit of what people want for the future."

  5. Conservation and restoration of cultural property - Wikipedia

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    The scope has widened from art conservation, involving protection and care of artwork and architecture, to conservation of cultural heritage, also including protection and care of a broad set of other cultural and historical works. Conservation of cultural heritage can be described as a type of ethical stewardship. It may broadly be divided into:

  6. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable development overlaps with the idea of sustainability which is a normative concept. [5] UNESCO formulated a distinction between the two concepts as follows: "Sustainability is often thought of as a long-term goal (i.e. a more sustainable world), while sustainable development refers to the many processes and pathways to achieve it." [6]

  7. Dry January: What is it and how beneficial can giving up ...

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    The Dry January campaign was started in 2013 by Alcohol Change U.K., a charity focused on reducing alcohol harm. What are the health benefits of Dry January? While research on how quitting alcohol ...

  8. Values (heritage) - Wikipedia

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    Cultural significance is said to be 'embodied' in the fabric, setting, use, associations, and meanings of a place, and includes aesthetic, historic, scientific, social and spiritual values for past, present and future generations. In order to preserve such values a 'cautious approach' of minimum intervention is advocated. [5] [6] [7]

  9. ‘This Is Not A Love Story’ by Huffington Post

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    A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States