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English Association Monographs: English at the Interface Ser. ; v.10 |
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English Association Monographs: English at the Interface Ser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 03, 2023). |
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National edeposit: Available online Unrestricted online access. star AU-CaNED |
| Summary |
Climate change is a reality, and communities around the world are now facing significant environmental problems - rising global temperatures leading to increased risk of flooding, fire, and sea level rise, resulting in the destruction of property and social infrastructure, loss of biodiversity and tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and damage to economies. Little wonder then that the online conference held on 30 September 2021 with the title "Ecomuseums and Climate Action" attracted more than one hundred participants from countries whose communities are facing these problems. This book presents the results of this conference where heritage experts, community activists, curators, politicians and academics from several countries, explored how ecomuseums and community museums are acting as catalysts for transition, renewal, and sustainable development and how they might effectively contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and climate action. How can these organisations best contribute to the debate about the climate crisis and promote local action? Central to those actions are encouraging local people to recognise how important their cultural, natural and intangible cultural heritage is in making places special and giving a sense of belonging, why that heritage should be sustained, and how heritage assets can be used to promote climate action. This book - with its remarkable collection of essays from around the world - demonstrates how small local actions, considered together, can have a dramatic and far-reaching impact. It will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in climate action, heritage and museum studies, and environmental issues. They sustain the global economy, set cultural trends, produce greenhouse gas emissions and consume energy; they attract migration flows and foster new political waves. While cities were supposed to be declining back in the 1980s, the globalised economy has established them as crucial world hubs leading billions of people on every continent, both at the top and the bottom of the social ladder, to move to cities. Today, global cities cry out for a more prominent role. But why and to what extent do they matter? Can they really stand alone in the global arena? How are they interacting with governments and multilateral organisations? From climate change to connectivity, from inequalities to migration: what is their contribution to key global challenges? |
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Australian literature -- History and criticism.
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors -- History and criticism.
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Cities and towns in literature.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Ecocriticism.
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Littérature australienne -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature australienne -- Auteurs aborigènes -- Histoire et critique.
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Écologie urbaine.
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Écocritique.
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urban environments.
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Social Science / Sociology / Urban.
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Australian literature
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Australian literature -- Aboriginal Australian authors
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Cities and towns in literature
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Ecocriticism
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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non-human nature |
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environment |
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Australian literature |
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ecocriticism |
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contemporary fiction |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: 1802077278 9781802077278 (OCoLC)1304816133 |
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1802079084 electronic book |
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9781802079081 (electronic bk.) |
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1802077278 |
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9781802077278 |
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UKMGB 020862513 |
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AUNED 000073920244 |
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AU@ 000073477706 |
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