Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action

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...

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description 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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1663812025-09-03T05:03:55Z Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action Mela, Marilena cultural heritage heritage studies sustainability landscapes islands archipelago Cyclades Aeolian islands Shetland Wadden islands energy transition wind turbine marine energy geothermal energy solar environmental humanities climate change climate mitigation thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THV Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNP Pollution and threats to the environment::RNPG Climate change thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology 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. 2025-09-03T05:03:54Z 2025-09-03T05:03:54Z 2025-09-02T09:01:29Z 2025 book ONIX_20250902T105613_9781040427064_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105880 9781040427064 9781003531210 9781040427118 9781032854397 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/166381 eng Routledge Environmental Humanities open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/105880/1/9781040427064.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003531210 10.4324/9781003531210 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 b9758691-21ca-45cb-b491-f5389d67b6a6 3f87c5ea-f890-4f19-b131-71a5cefa75b4 9781040427064 9781003531210 9781040427118 9781032854397 Routledge 204 Oxford [...] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam VU University Amsterdam 10.13039/501100001833 open access
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heritage studies
sustainability
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islands
archipelago
Cyclades
Aeolian islands
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energy transition
wind turbine
marine energy
geothermal energy
solar
environmental humanities
climate change
climate mitigation
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Mela, Marilena
Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title_full Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title_fullStr Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title_full_unstemmed Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title_short Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
title_sort assembling the archipelago heritage in energy transitions and climate action
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heritage studies
sustainability
landscapes
islands
archipelago
Cyclades
Aeolian islands
Shetland
Wadden islands
energy transition
wind turbine
marine energy
geothermal energy
solar
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climate change
climate mitigation
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thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building
thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TH Energy technology and engineering::THV Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
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Wadden islands
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wind turbine
marine energy
geothermal energy
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climate change
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