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Venice in environmental peril? : myth and reality / Dominic Standish ; foreword by John Eglin.
- Title
- Venice in environmental peril? : myth and reality / Dominic Standish ; foreword by John Eglin.
- Author
- Standish, Dominic
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 318 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book explores Venice's environmental risks based on interviews with Venetian environmental campaigners and draws on the mythology of the Venetian Republic. Campaigners' opinions about the mobile dams nearing completion to protect the city reveal that Venice now represents an environmentally-threatened retreat from modernity. This reputation has been established as sustainable development and climate change policies have risen to the top of political agendas in many cities and countries. The book investigates how environmentalism has been transformed from a theory underpinning counter-cultural movements to part of a dominant holistic culture in Western societies. Rather than constraining Venice in search of a mythical harmony with nature, this book offers a ten-point proposal to modernize the city while preserving its ancient heritage.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-305) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0761856641
- 9780761856641
- OCLC
- 779263797
- SCSB-12741222
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library