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FILM OF DEBATE: Modernisation, development and conservation. Click on the image below to view this film
Book review of Roger Scruton’s ‘Green Philosophy’: weaknesses in thinking seriously about the planet. Click on the image below to read the review
SAVING AND MODERNIZING VENICE REPRESENTS THE CHALLENGE OF RESCUING HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT.

“In the fall of Venice think of thine.”
Lord George Gordon Byron, ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ Canto IV, (2008 [1812], 153).

André Chastel, the French art historian, referred to “the Venetian challenge: the central episode of the crisis of modern civilization” (cited by Andrea Rinaldo in ‘Sustainable Venice: Suggestions for the Future,’ edited by Ignazio Musu, 2001, 61).

“Never like today has Venice spoken to historians and men in general in a language more real and universal, offering experience of a microcosm that goes along a path full of dilemmas, of a relationship that is risky and perennially precarious with nature.”
Piero Bevilacqua, Italian historian, La Sapienza University of Rome (‘Venezia e le acque. Una metafora planetaria,’ 2000, 20).
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‘Inside Italy’s #coronavirus lockdown’. Discussion including my comments on #Covid-19 for @spikedonline podcast

Posted by Dominic Standish on March 14, 2020 · Leave a Comment

This podcast was recorded on the evening of 12 March 2020 and was broadcast on 13 March 2020. You can listed to it on this website: Inside Italy’s coronavirus lockdown Alternatively, you can listen by subscribing to The Spiked Podcast, which I highly recommend, using this link: The spiked podcast

Filed under Blogroll · Tagged with authoritarianism, coronavirus, covid-19, fear, financial crisis, freedom, health, Italy, pandemic, politics, risk, travel

Click on the image below to order this book from Amazon.com . Other buying options are available on the page above listed ‘Book information’
Book Review of ‘Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality’ by Elisabetta Gasparoni. Click on the image below to read the review on Spiked Review of Books
New York Times/International Herald Tribune. My comments on Pierre Cardin’s proposed LIght Palace for Venice. Click on the image below to read the article
‘IS MASS TOURISM RUINING VACATIONS AS WE KNOW THEM?’ MY COMMENTS AS ONE OF THREE INTERVIEWEES DURING LIVE TV AND YOUTUBE BROADCAST BY AL JAZEERA @AJSTREAM
IMPROVING LAND USE TO FEED MORE PEOPLE. INTERVIEW WITH ME AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SPECIALIST ON SKY NEWS LIVE
‘VENICE ASKS OTHER PORTS TO HELP FIND SOLUTION TO CRUISE SHIP PROBLEMS’. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN INCLUDING MY COMMENTS
‘VENICE OVERTOURISM?’ TV AND YOUTUBE INTERVIEW WITH ME AND TWO ITALIANS ON THE NEWSMAKERS, @TRT WORLD
‘WAR ON PLASTIC: A LOAD OF RUBBISH?’ BATTLE OF IDEAS PANEL DEBATE, LONDON’S BARBICAN, 14 OCTOBER 2018: CLICK ON THE AUDIO FILE LINK BELOW

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BBC World Service Radio and Podcast The Documentary “Cruising”. Click on the link below for an audio link with my comments after 3 minutes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p044trlb
‘Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation.’ Click on the image below for a link to the paper
Film of debate: ‘Death in Venice: Is Tourism Killing or Saving the City?’ Click on the image below to view this film

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FILM OF DEBATE: Modernisation, development and conservation. Click on the image below to view this film

Book review of Roger Scruton’s ‘Green Philosophy’: weaknesses in thinking seriously about the planet. Click on the image below to read the review

SAVING AND MODERNIZING VENICE REPRESENTS THE CHALLENGE OF RESCUING HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT.

Useful website links

‘Inside Italy’s #coronavirus lockdown’. Discussion including my comments on #Covid-19 for @spikedonline podcast

Click on the image below to order this book from Amazon.com . Other buying options are available on the page above listed ‘Book information’

Book Review of ‘Venice in Environmental Peril? Myth and Reality’ by Elisabetta Gasparoni. Click on the image below to read the review on Spiked Review of Books

New York Times/International Herald Tribune. My comments on Pierre Cardin’s proposed LIght Palace for Venice. Click on the image below to read the article

‘IS MASS TOURISM RUINING VACATIONS AS WE KNOW THEM?’ MY COMMENTS AS ONE OF THREE INTERVIEWEES DURING LIVE TV AND YOUTUBE BROADCAST BY AL JAZEERA @AJSTREAM

IMPROVING LAND USE TO FEED MORE PEOPLE. INTERVIEW WITH ME AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SPECIALIST ON SKY NEWS LIVE

‘VENICE ASKS OTHER PORTS TO HELP FIND SOLUTION TO CRUISE SHIP PROBLEMS’. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN INCLUDING MY COMMENTS

‘VENICE OVERTOURISM?’ TV AND YOUTUBE INTERVIEW WITH ME AND TWO ITALIANS ON THE NEWSMAKERS, @TRT WORLD

‘WAR ON PLASTIC: A LOAD OF RUBBISH?’ BATTLE OF IDEAS PANEL DEBATE, LONDON’S BARBICAN, 14 OCTOBER 2018: CLICK ON THE AUDIO FILE LINK BELOW

BBC World Service Radio and Podcast The Documentary “Cruising”. Click on the link below for an audio link with my comments after 3 minutes.

‘Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation.’ Click on the image below for a link to the paper

Film of debate: ‘Death in Venice: Is Tourism Killing or Saving the City?’ Click on the image below to view this film

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