FutureScapes: Managing Emerging and Future Cultural Landscapes
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (796 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1402097115 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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With its focus on cultural landscapes and landscape futures the book will have appeal for academics, professionals and students engaged in archaeological management, heritage/historic preservation, space history, futures studies and cultural landscapes, as well as for the broader space and environmental communities.. This begs the question – ‘Why?’In this latest book in Springer’s innovative Landscape Series, Dirk Spennemann explores the conceptual barriers that prevent the recognition, and
Moreover, no steps were – or have since been – taken to protect and manage significant elements of that event for the benefit of future generations. This begs the question – ‘Why?’In this latest book in Springer’s innovative Landscape Series, Dirk Spennemann explores the conceptual barriers that prevent the recognition, and subsequent protection, of significant elements of contemporary and emergent heritage. An estimated 600 million people, about one fifth of the human population at the time, watched the live-television broadcast as Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon. Using the new research paradigm of heritage futures, Spennemann argues that the heritage management profession’s extensive reliance on hindsight remains its major conceptual shortcoming, and sets out the issues faced by cultural heritage professionals if