Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Heritage

This handbook provides insights into sustainable heritage, engaging with topics such as data science, climate change, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience across global heritage sites. It offers cross-disciplinary perspectives and scientific approaches, with chapters from leading scholars and practitioners. It is a valuable resource for students and scholars in heritage studies, archaeology, museum studies, cultural studies, architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, geography, and tourism.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 556 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive handbook provides cutting-edge and global insights into sustainable heritage, delving into diverse topics such as data science in heritage, climate change and environmental challenges, indigenous heritage, contested heritage, and resilience. Spanning a wide range of global heritage sites, it is organized into six thematic parts, offering cross-disciplinary perspectives on the latest theory, research, and practice. Thirty-five chapters, authored by renowned scholars and practitioners, as well as early career researchers, offer valuable insights into the field. By integrating scientific approaches to sustainable heritage and exploring multicultural perspectives across various geographical contexts and scales, this book fills a significant gap in the literature. The themes covered revolve around heritage values and risk, participatory approaches to heritage, dissonant heritage, socio-environmental challenges, sustainable heritage-led transformation, and innovative cross-disciplinary methods for heritage research.

This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars in the fields of heritage studies, archaeology, museum studies, cultural studies, architecture, landscape, urban design, planning, geography, and tourism. It offers a comprehensive understanding of sustainable heritage practices and their implications for preserving and promoting cultural heritage for future generations.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032276991