Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability.

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Author / Creator:Barthel-Bouchier, Diane.
Imprint:Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012.
Description:1 online resource (236 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168471
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ISBN:1611322375
9781611322378
1611322383
9781611322385
1611322391
9781611322392
9781611326789
1611326788
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:'For cultural and heritage institutions around the world, sustainability is the major challenge of the twenty-first century. In the first major work to analyze this critical issue, Barthel-Bouchier argues that programmatic commitments to sustainability arose both from direct environmental threats to tangible and intangible heritage, and from social and economic contradictions as heritage developed into a truly global organizational field. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews over many years, as well as detailed coverage of primary documents and secondary literature, she examines.
Other form:Print version: 9781611322378 1611322375