چکیده:
Since the 1970’s the sustainable development has been an important subject for UNESCO. Several expert meetings and gatherings have been organized and declarations and reports written. However, after establishing of the post-2015 Agenda for Sustainable Development, various sectors of UNESCO began to deal with the issue in concerning community participation and environmental sustainability, inclusive social cohesion and the economic aspects of sustainable development. Especially for the 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, sustainable development became essential. Among other interrelated aspects of sustainable development, environmental sustainability is the core of intangible cultural heritage. As is stressed in reports of UNESCO-ICH, environmental sustainability requires ensuring a stable climate, sustainably managing natural resources and protecting biodiversity. These, in turn, depend on improved scientific understanding and knowledge sharing about climate change, natural hazards, the space environment and natural resource limits. Strengthening resilience among vulnerable populations in the face of climate change and natural disasters is essential to limiting their human, social and economic costs. The aforementioned lines show us how environmental sustainability is important for intangible cultural heritage studies. We know that traditional knowledge, values and practices accumulated and renewed across generations as part of intangible cultural heritage have guided human societies in their interactions with the surrounding natural environment for millennia. As it is put forward in many research studies today, the contribution of intangible cultural heritage to environmental sustainability is recognized in many fields, such as biodiversity conservation, sustainable natural resource management and natural disaster preparedness and response. However, it is not always possible to align local knowledge with those set out in theory. Often local practices remain in the shadow of fancy theories especially concerning with the local traditional knowledge. In this context we will discuss modern theories of environmental sustainability, together with the problems arising from local practices. We will try to reveal contradictions between modern sustainable development discourses and local traditional knowledge with examples from the world and Turkey, like eco-farms or eco-tourism activities.
خلاصه ماشینی:
In this context, activities were realized related to the sustainable Selling Ice-cream to Eskimos: Can Communities Sustain … 7 development goals in the axis of the 2003 Convention for safeguarding ICH, which has been ratified by 178 States Parties at the present time.
One of the paradoxical situations between the SDG‘s and intangible cultural heritage is that even though culture is not among the sustainable development goals as stated above, when it is considered from the view point of culture, none of the goals could not be thought of independently from Selling Ice-cream to Eskimos: Can Communities Sustain … 18 culture.
In the lead of the elements that are areas of risk during the activities carried out aimed at safeguarding heritage the following can be listed: excessive commercialization, touristification, becoming a museum item, breaking away from context, eliminating cultural spaces or making them dysfunctional, mistakes made when reviving, attempting to preserve by freezing, excessive exploitation of natural and environmental resources, unrealistic goals and expectations, lack of dialogue among institutions and persons or many institutions attempting to work together whether or not it is necessary.
The need is underlined to adopt an integral approach in the context of the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, in its transfer to future generations and in attaining the sustainable development goals for everything expressed here.
Selling Ice-cream to Eskimos: Can Communities Sustain … 32 UNESCO ―Somut Olmayan Kültürel Mirasın Koruması Sözleşmesi‖ (The Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage).
Selling Ice-cream to Eskimos: Can Communities Sustain … 34 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ITH/14/9.