Conflicting interpretations of sustainability, in combination with a simplistic understanding and agency introduced from the top-down, has eliminated waste minimization as the main outcome of the directive.
The application of a mixed qualitative/quantitative statistical method, or the 'Q-methodology', small and medium-sized farms, academic experts, technicians and consumers have been interviewed to investigate their perceptions and interpretations of sustainability issues.
This paper provides an account of the views and attitudes of landholders, as revealed in a series of three workshops, which consisted of discussions about the factors influencing agriculture, participants' interpretations of sustainability, and policy methods.
In response, this paper draws on sustainable architecture to propose fluid transitions to more sustainable PSS: to PSS design practices that embrace diversity and enable specific PSS to be developed which address contextual interpretations of sustainability challenges.
If standard creators ignore local interpretations of sustainability, they may overshoot their goals.
Interpretations of sustainability varied among stakeholders within and across three program sites; some considered sustainability as referring to the continuance of the program in its entirety while others related it to certain program components.
