1st Edition
Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability
By Diane Barthel-Bouchier
Copyright 2013
235 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
235 Pages
by
Routledge
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For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, and from social and economic contradictions as heritage developed... Read more
Chapter 1 Culture: Our Second Nature; Chapter 2 Is Heritage a Human Right?; Chapter 3 Fighting Climate Change and Achieving Sustainability: Organizational Processes of Mission Change; Chapter 4 Global Cities and Historic Towns: Rising Waters, Threatened Treasures; Chapter 5 The Loss of Cultural Landscapes: Desertification, Deforestation, and Polar Melting; Chapter 6 Heritage and Energy: The Interaction of Coercive and Normative Pressures; Chapter 7 Cultural Tourism and the Discourse of Sustainability; Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Future of Heritage;
Biography
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