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Venice in Environmental Peril?
- Myth and Reality
Engelsk Paperback
Venice in Environmental Peril?
- Myth and Reality
Engelsk Paperback

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Venice and its environment are perceived to be in peril due to rising sea levels, tourism, and modern development. Are these threats myths or reality? 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
306
ISBN-13:
9780761856641
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0761856641
Udg. Dato:
14 dec 2011
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
University Press of America
Oplagsdato:
14 dec 2011
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge