Ecomuseums and Climate Change

Nunzia Borrelli, Raul Dal Santo, Peter Davis

• Publisher: Ledizioni
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9788855268387
• eBook ISBN: 9788855268394
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Museum Studies

Climate change is a reality, and communities around the world are now facing significant environmental problems – rising global temperatures leading to increased risk of flooding, fire, and sea level rise, resulting in the destruction of property and social infrastructure, loss of biodiversity and tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and damage to economies. Little wonder then that the online conference held on 30 September 2021 with the title "Ecomuseums and Climate Action" attracted more than one hundred participants from countries whose communities are facing these problems.This book presents the results of this conference where heritage experts, community activists, curators, politicians and academics from several countries, explored how ecomuseums and community museums are acting as catalysts for transition, renewal, and sustainable development and how they might effectively contribute to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and climate action. How can these organisations best contribute to the debate about the climate crisis and promote local action? Central to those actions are encouraging local people to recognise how important their cultural, natural and intangible cultural heritage is in making places special and giving a sense of belonging, why that heritage should be sustained, and how heritage assets can be used to promote climate action. This book – with its remarkable collection of essays from around the world – demonstrates how small local actions, considered together, can have a dramatic and far-reaching impact. It will be warmly welcomed by anyone interested in climate action, heritage and museum studies, and environmental issues.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Foreword. Museums, ecomuseums and the global challenge of sustainability and climate change
• Introduction
• 1. Connecting the 21 Principles of Ecomuseums, the Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Action
• 2. The Inside-Outside Model - Animating the Muses for Cultural Transformation Amid the Climate Crisis
• 3. Ecomuseums, the SDGs and Climate Action: The Ecoheritage Project.
• 4. Museums and Ecomuseums, cultural sustainable places for people and the planet: responses for ecological transition1
• 5. Contemporary Art and climate change in ecomuseums: aesthetics toward sustainability.
• 6. Can Democracy save the Environment?
• 7. Canadian Ecomuseums and Climate Change: Assessing the Potential
• 8. Climate actions of the Ecomuseu Ilha Grande (Brazil) for the Sustainable Development Goals
• 9. Climate action and Ecomuseum practices in Africa: the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Experience
• 10. Community Crafts and Cultures in Costa Rica: community resilience in response to climate change
• 11. The Cateran Ecomuseum’s ‘Museum of Rapid Transition’
• 12. The importance of ecomuseums and local knowledge for a sustainable future: the La Ponte-Ecomuseu project
• 13. Ekomuzeum „Dziedziny Dunajca”, Poland: steps to environmental sustainability
• 14. Museums Planning for Cultural impacts. The case study of Parabiago ecomuseum (Italy)
• 15. The “Ecomuseo Martesana” and the climate challenge
• Notes on Contributors