2002年约翰内斯堡的世界可持续发展峰会上,从观念上缩小文化与自然的鸿沟第一次成为国际事务中头等重要的大事。环保运动的兴起、社会诸多部门对可持续发展——它有助于人类社会与其自然环境之间维持一种破坏性较小的关系——日增的兴趣,促使我们超越生物/社会或自然/文化的思维两分法。如今大家都明白了自然也是社会所为、所造,任何社会所欲都和它所生、所处的自然及人为环境 At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, narrowing the gap between culture and nature for the first time became a top priority in international affairs. The rise of the environmental movement, the growing commitment of many sectors of society to sustainable development - which helps to maintain a less destructive relationship between human society and its natural environment - has led us to move beyond biological / social or natural / Cultural thinking dichotomy. Nowadays, everyone understands that nature is also a natural and man-made environment in which society as a whole, whatever society wants and where it is born and where it lives