Personal Sustainability

Transition to sustainability is still stuck. The human, individual, inner as well as the cultural, immaterial aspects are often left untreated. This book argues that increased research into the emerging field of personal sustainability will help jump start progress towards a sustainable world.

1. Personal Sustainability - Exploring a New Field of Sustainable Development Oliver Parodi and Kaidi Tamm 2. Sustainability, Culture and Personal Virtues Reiner Manstetten 3. Psychology of Sustainability - Psychological Resources for Sustainable Lifestyles Marcel Hunecke 4. Care of the self and "Bildung" as condition for and result of personal sustainability Michael Niehaus, Dirk Schmidt and Shirli Homburg 5. Sustainable Development: A Matter of Truth and Love Oliver Parodi 6. Sustainability in crisis: a perspective of subjective body as 'healing' force Sabin Wendhack 7. Developing Intra-personal Skills as a Proactive Way to Personal Sustainability: the Preventive Side of the Mental Health Equation Helena Lass 8. Inner Conflict Resolution and Self-Empowerment as Contribution for Personal Sustainability on the Case of Intentional Community Practices Stella Veciana and Kariin Ottmar 9. Awareness as the New Paradigm for Personal Sustainability: A Practitioner's Perspective on the Sustainability Transition Ingvar Villido 10. Reflexivity: Balancing the Metanarratives of Sustainable Development Kaidi Tamm 11. Sustainability without the I-sense is Nonsense: Inner 'Technologies' for a Viable Future and the Inner Dimension of Sustainability Shelley Sacks 12. Personal Sustainability - Conclusions and Perspectives Oliver Parodi, Kaidi Tamm and Sabin Wendhack