Reason and Reenchantment in Cultural Change: Sustainability in Higher Education

Abstract

Significant contributors to diminishing sustainability are loss of ecosystem functions, natural-resoource degradation, and overconsumption associated with detached lifestyles, detached government policies, and detached administration. Property and tenure systems, while useful for regulating resource access, are implemented in ways that also fragment ecosystems and the way we think about them. Globalization of culture, society, and commodities has accelerated the disconnection and disenchantment of people and their environment - their landscapes of "home."