Venice in Environmental Peril?

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  • Venice in Environmental Peril? Book Detail

  • Author : Dominic Standish
  • Release Date : 2012
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 333
  • ISBN 13 : 0761856641
  • File Size : 41,41 MB
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Venice in Environmental Peril? by Dominic Standish PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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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