An Institutional Approach to Sustainability: Historical Interplay of Worldviews, Institutions and Technology

摘要

The pathway to sustainability lies prevalently in the change of those cultural traits that generate collective behavior and choices that are environmentally adverse, and only to a lesser extent in technological change and scientific progress. Collective behavior is shaped by institutions, which are to a large extent contingent on the values and beliefs that are shared in a society - its prevailing worldview.