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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462729703321

Autore

Barthel-Bouchier Diane L. <1949-, >

Titolo

Cultural heritage and the challenge of sustainability / / Diane Barthel-Bouchier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-43104-1

1-315-43105-X

1-61132-239-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

363.6

363.6/9

Soggetti

World Heritage areas - Environmental aspects

Cultural property - Environmental aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One. Culture: Our Second Nature; Chapter Two. Is Heritage a Human Right?; Chapter Three. Fighting Climate Change and Achieving Sustainability: Organizational Processes of Mission Change; Chapter Four. Global Cities and Historic Towns: Rising Waters, Threatened Treasures; Chapter Five. The Loss of Cultural Landscapes: Desertification, Deforestation, and Polar Melting; Chapter Six. Heritage and Energy: The Interaction of Coercive and Normative Pressures; Chapter Seven. Cultural Tourism and the Discourse of Sustainability

Chapter Eight. Conclusion: The Future of HeritageReferences; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

'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 into a truly global organizational field. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and



interviews over many years, as well as detailed coverage of primary documents and secondary literature, she examines