Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-85439-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Environmental Humanities

This book explores the potential of heritage to enact sustainable human-environment relationships across geographical differences. It will resonate with academics, students, policymakers and activists in heritage studies, environmental humanities, landscape studies, science and technology studies, and sustainability.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mela, Marilena

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Thinking with islands 2. Narratives and materialities of sustainability on Ameland 3. Troubles with wind and landscape consciousness on Tinos 4. A common world: legacies of community and commons in Shetland 5. In the shadow of the volcanoes: action and inaction in the Aeolian islands 6. Acting with islands

Über Autor(innen)

Marilena Mela is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she earned her PhD as part of the European Marie Curie-funded project Heriland. She also holds MSCs in Architecture and Architectural Theory from the National Technical University of Athens. Her research focuses on the intersection of heritage, sustainability, landscape, and climate, exploring situated links between inherited pasts and imagined futures in the face of socioenvironmental crises. She teaches courses on heritage, history, design, landscape, and urbanism. She also collaborates with the award-winning collective Boulouki whose work centres on traditional building practices and local knowledge within Greek landscapes.