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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barthel-Bouchier, Diane L., 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Heritage areas--Environmental aspects.

World Heritage areas.

Cultural property--Environmental aspects.

Cultural property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'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

Contents:

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

Notes:

First published 2013 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-43103-3

1-315-43104-1

1-315-43105-X

1-61132-239-1

9781315431055

OCLC:

822667214