Prologue

The book Cultures and Local Practices of Sustainability is the result of a collaborative and interdisciplinary academic effort developed in the context of the ROUTES Toward Sustainability ROUTES Toward Sustainability University Network. The ROUTES Toward Sustainability University Network Sustainability, born in 2012, is a partnership of twenty association of twenty universities from different continents that hosts symposia, conferences, lectures, talks, study programs conferences, lectures, study programs and projects and projects from an interdisciplinary vision on sustainability. This book is based on a multidisciplinary multidisciplinary approach, which integrates cultural cultural elements of the humanities, environmental environmental humanities, design, economics, urbanism and urbanism and innovation, to understand to understand conceptions of sustainability from a complex from a complex and systemic perspective, addressing different areas of knowledge and requiring an integrative vision.