1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955874403321

Autore

DeSilvey Caitlin

Titolo

Curated decay : heritage beyond saving / / Caitlin DeSilvey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : Univ. of Minnesota P., 2017

ISBN

9781452953717 (ebook)

9780816694365 (hbk.)

9780816694389 (pbk.)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.) : ill

Disciplina

363.69

Soggetti

Historic sites - Conservation and restoration

Cultural property - Protection

Historic preservation - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Postpreservation: looking past loss -- 2. Memory's ecologies: curating mutability in Montana -- 3. When story meets the storm: unsafe harbor -- 4. Orderly decay: philosophies of non-intervention -- 5. A positive passivity: plants as entropic agents -- 6. Boundary work: nature-culture in practice -- 7. Palliative curation: the death of a lighthouse -- 8. Beyond saving: care without conservation.

Sommario/riassunto

Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with-rather than defend against-natural processes. Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey's travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with



ephemeral artifacts and architectures. An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910142520003321

Titolo

Waste treatment and disposal / / editors, R.E. Hester and R.M. Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, : Royal Society of Chemistry, c1995

ISBN

9781847552334

1847552331

9781591244172

159124417X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (170 p.) : ill

Collana

Issues in environmental science and technology, , 1350-7583 ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

HesterR. E (Ronald E.)

HarrisonRoy M. <1948->

Disciplina

363.72/8

Soggetti

Refuse and refuse disposal - Environmental aspects - Great Britain

Factory and trade waste - Environmental aspects - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Integrated pollution control and waste minimization -- Sewage and industrial effluents -- Landfill -- Emissions to the atmosphere -- Recycling waste materials: opportunities and barriers -- Disposal of nuclear fuel waste  -- The economics of waste management -- Subject index.

Sommario/riassunto

This Issue follows on from the review of waste incineration in Issue 2, providing a thorough and detailed review of other waste management options. Waste generation affects everyone, and its treatment and disposal are matters of increasing complexity and urgency. This book examines the environmental impact of sewage and industrial effluent treatment on inland and coastal waters, in the atmosphere and on land. It also looks into current practice in the design, engineering, operation



and control of landfill sites, and the effect of changes in regulatory policy. A wide range of waste management practices result in atmospheric discharges and this book reviews the localized impacts and mitigation of the discharge and the regulatory framework within which waste management has to operate. The book also covers the general and technical issues facing the materials recycling industry; looks into the factors affecting deep underground storage of radioactive fuel waste produced by nuclear reactors; and provides data from a number of case studies in cost-benefit analysis, demonstrating the utility of a consistent economic theory of waste management.