Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Oxford Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (204 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781003531210
- 9781032854397
- 9781040427064
- 9781040427118
- The Arts
- Architecture
- Landscape architecture and design
- Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
- Library and information sciences / Museology
- Museology and heritage studies
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Cultural and media studies
- Cultural studies
- Sociology and anthropology
- Anthropology
- History and Archaeology
- History
- Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning
- Geography
- Human geography
- The environment
- Pollution and threats to the environment
- Climate change
- Regional and area planning
- Urban and municipal planning and policy
- Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes
- Energy technology and engineering
- Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
- Civil engineering, surveying and building
- Aeolian islands
- Cyclades
- Shetland
- Wadden islands
- archipelago
- climate change
- climate mitigation
- cultural heritage
- energy transition
- environmental humanities
- geothermal energy
- heritage studies
- islands
- landscapes
- marine energy
- solar
- sustainability
- wind turbine
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This book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human–environment relationships across geographical differences. It does so by travelling to four archipelagoes: the Wadden Islands in the Netherlands, the Cyclades in Greece, Shetland in Scotland, and the Aeolian Islands in Italy. In the face of planetary socioenvironmental crises, the reliance on sustainable development strategies, including the energy transition, on technocratic, top-down solutions fail to counterbalance global agendas of extraction and growth and address environmental injustices in "peripheral" places. This book stresses the need to "think small," arguing that seeds for meaningful change exist in such places and the geographically and historically situated relationships between people and environments. Islands, interconnected yet autonomous places with unique histories, are good places to start. In four archipelagoes, frictions produced both by climate change and climate mitigation ―the fragile consensus around a solar park in the Wadden Sea, conflicts around wind turbine towers in the Aegean, experiments with the tides in Shetland, and volcanic episodes in the Aeolian―come in dialogue with the learning potential of their environmental and cultural heritage. The counterposing of these stories renegotiates established discourses of heritage and sustainability and the associated courses of action in policy and planning. This contribution will resonate with academics, students, policymakers, and activists in heritage studies, environmental humanities, landscape studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability. Readers are invited to participate in the life and troubles of four island landscapes, and to think along on emergent, archipelagic claims towards sustainable and just futures.
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