Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability / by Diane Barthel-Bouchier.
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TextPublisher: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013Description: 236 p. ; 23 cmContent type: - text
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
'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.
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