Abstract
Abstract It is often very difficult to align sustainability-related discourse with practices, partly due to the compartmentalized treatment of sustainability’s dimensions. Building on existing literature, this paper seeks to analyze the way those dimensions are worked out in the practices of ecovillages, a kind of community explicitly oriented towards sustainability. We observe that ecovillages view sustainability in a systemic perspective, adopting a multidimensional and integrated approach. That is apparent in the fact that their practices simultaneously present functions in various dimensions revealing the latter’s interdependency. The so-called ‘social sustainability’ (including political, economic and cultural aspects) involves far more significant difficulties than ‘ecological sustainability’ and it may even render the continuity of such communities unfeasible. The experience of ecovillages suggests that social sustainability constitutes the very foundation of ecological sustainability, insofar as ecological practices are necessarily mediated by complex social relationships.
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