Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- 1 Asian identities
- 2 On sustainable development
- 3 Sustainability: A scientific dilemma
- 4 Respect and reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius
- 5 Sustainable development from an East-West integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets Western complexity theory
- 6 Sustainable urbanism: Measuring long-term architectural merit
- 7 Sustaining wooden architectural heritage
- 8 Green development in China
- 9 Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives and Gross National Happiness
- 10 A different form of sustainable development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a sufficiency approach
- 11 The sustainability of food production in Papua New Guinea
- 12 Education for sustainable development: An overview of Asia-Pacific perspectives
- 13 A placemaking framework for the social sustainability of master-planned communities: A case study from Australia
- 14 Poverty, inequity, and environmental degradation: The key issues confronting the environment and sustainable development in Asia
- 15 The challenge of global climate change for international law: An overview
- 16 Sustainable development and climate change negotiations: Perspectives of developing countries
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
7 - Sustaining wooden architectural heritage
from Part I - Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2021
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Book contents
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Peer reviewers
- Editor’s note
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Environmental keystones: Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Remembering Dr Mostafa Kamal Tolba
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- SI prefixes
- Unit abbreviations
- Chemical formulae
- Part I Sustainable Development: Theories and Practices
- 1 Asian identities
- 2 On sustainable development
- 3 Sustainability: A scientific dilemma
- 4 Respect and reward: Ecology from the Analects of Confucius
- 5 Sustainable development from an East-West integrative perspective: Eastern culture meets Western complexity theory
- 6 Sustainable urbanism: Measuring long-term architectural merit
- 7 Sustaining wooden architectural heritage
- 8 Green development in China
- 9 Bhutan’s sustainable development initiatives and Gross National Happiness
- 10 A different form of sustainable development in Thailand and Bhutan: Implementation of a sufficiency approach
- 11 The sustainability of food production in Papua New Guinea
- 12 Education for sustainable development: An overview of Asia-Pacific perspectives
- 13 A placemaking framework for the social sustainability of master-planned communities: A case study from Australia
- 14 Poverty, inequity, and environmental degradation: The key issues confronting the environment and sustainable development in Asia
- 15 The challenge of global climate change for international law: An overview
- 16 Sustainable development and climate change negotiations: Perspectives of developing countries
- Part II Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- Index
- Endmatter
- References
Summary
Sustaining tangible heritage has long been seen as a key undertaking to maintain our sense of place and links with the past. This is well understood, yet at times the preservation of buildings and monuments in the face of environmental change has been neglected. Even the IPCC has paid scant attention to the impact of climate change on material heritage. Significant buildings and historic sites can be seen as a resource to promote tourism and attract funding, without a true awareness of the need to treat them as irreplaceable. This chapter looks at two important religious sites with notable wooden buildings, which are under threat from environmental change. Additionally, attack by insects or mould and the frequency of forest fires can be affected by a changing climate. Beyond this, shifts in the local environment can alter our experience of heritage ensembles. This requires improved scientific understanding and thoughtful approaches to long-term management.
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- Sustainable Development: Asia-Pacific Perspectives , pp. 52 - 67Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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