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New chap­ter to the Edward El­gar Com­pa­ni­on to Sustai­nab­le Bu­si­ness Mo­dels

The “Ori­gin or En­viron­ment? A The­o­lo­gi­cal Chal­len­ge to the Con­cept of Sustai­na­bi­li­ty”, exa­mi­nes the hi­sto­ri­cal and the­o­lo­gi­cal fo­un­da­tions un­der­lying Eu­ro­pe­an con­cep­tions of na­tu­re. It en­ga­ges with re­flections on whet­her na­tu­re should be un­der­stood pri­ma­rily as a hu­man en­viron­ment or, more fun­da­men­tal­ly, as the ori­gin of hu­man exi­sten­ce.

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Ca­mil­la Sløk

Associate Professor Camilla Sløk has contributed a chapter to the Edward Elgar Companion to Sustainable Business Models. The chapter, titled “Origin or Environment? A Theological Challenge to the Concept of Sustainability”, examines the historical and theological foundations underlying European conceptions of nature. In particular, it engages with the Danish theologian K. E. Løgstrup’s reflections on whether nature should be understood primarily as a human environment or, more fundamentally, as the origin of human existence. The latter perspective positions the human being as emerging from, and intrinsically embedded within, nature, thereby offering a distinctive theological lens on contemporary sustainability debates. Book publishing will be announced later.