Collection: Global Climate Change and Built Heritage
This special issue collates new research and heritage practices related to the complex relationship between anthropogenic climate change and built heritage. Contributions cover practical, technical, and philosophical challenges posed by this global crisis, investigating the sub-themes of ‘The impact of the continued use of built heritage on climate change’, ‘The impact of climate change on built heritage’, ‘Learning from the past’, and ‘Built heritage, climate action, and environmental justice’. Here a series of detailed case studies and specific climatic contexts provide specific insight into the breadth of issues that are emerging as shared concerns.
Collection: Historical Monuments for Countryside Conservation in Hong Kong and Its Surrounding Areas
This special issue aims to draw our attentions to various ongoing countryside conservation projects driven by multidisciplinary perspectives in Hong Kong. With original data and new findings of experts from different disciplines, this special issue presents five articles based on relevant research in two regions of the New Territories – Lantau Island and Sha Tau Kok and serves to broaden our knowledge of local lifestyles in relation to the current situations they are facing. The articles also address the key issue of involvement from various stakeholders including local villagers, the general public, government, NGOs, entrepreneurs, etc. Besides providing rich ethnographic descriptions and analyses on built monuments as tangible heritage, our authors offer reflections on conservation approaches that reveal the socio-cultural complexities of contemporary Hong Kong.
Collection: Industrial heritage sites and mega-events: An opportunity for urban redevelopment and social change?
This Special Issue identifies common trends and local variations of the relationships between the organization of mega-events and industrial heritage for urban regeneration and growth worldwide. Selected papers address issues like urban image branding; state narratives and policies legitimating mega-events and related modernization and civilization process; the politics of exclusion and local population dispossession commonly linked to the celebration of mega-events; and environmental and social sustainability matters of urban regeneration.