This volume is a collection of contributions to the international and interdisciplinary Conferences 'Developments - Movements - Valuations' from November 6th to 9th 2014 and 'ResourceCultures Theories, Methods, Perspectives' from November 16th to 19th 2015 at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen organised by the collaborative research centre 'SFB 1070 ResourceCultures - Sociocultural Dynamics in the Use of Resources'. It includes comprehensive papers about theories, approaches and concepts for the exploration of ResourceCultures, applying a diachronic and interdisciplinary perspective according to the vision of the SFB. International experts from a variety of different disciplines present case studies, examining ResourceCultures from the very beginning of human history until the present in a wide variety of cultural contexts. Thus, they demonstrate the manifold facets of 'resources' as a category for scientific analysis.
