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FILM OF DEBATE: Modernisation, development and conservation. Click on the image below to view this film
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Book review of Roger Scruton’s ‘Green Philosophy’: weaknesses in thinking seriously about the planet. Click on the image below to read the review

NOW IT’S TIME FOR ‘ITALEAVE’ – My article on Italy’s general election

Posted by Dominic Standish on March 7, 2018 · 1 Comment

The article in the link and text below on the general election in Italy held on 4 March 2018 was published by Spiked on 7 March 2018; NOW IT’S TIME FOR ‘ITALEAVE’ DOMINIC STANDISH LECTURER AND AUTHOR Italy’s politicians must listen to the public and consider leaving the EU. The General Election in Italy … Continue reading →

Filed under home · Tagged with elections, EU, Europe, Italy, politics, populism

Paper published about Venice and Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation

Posted by Dominic Standish on December 19, 2012 · 1 Comment

This academic paper by Dominic Standish has been published in the journal Energy and Environment, Vol. 23, No. 6 & 7, 2012. The full text of the paper is available using the publisher’s website here: Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation This is the abstract of the paper: Italy’s limited natural energy … Continue reading →

Filed under Venice · Tagged with energy, environment, gas, innovation, Italy, nuclear, renewable, risk, shale, solar, Venice

Tourist tax for Venice?

Posted by Dominic Standish on March 23, 2011 · 4 Comments

The Vice-Mayor of Venice, Sandro Simionato, this week advocated the rapid introduction of a tax on tourists to Venice. The tourist tax, which is likely to be known as the ‘Venice ticket’, would initially be added to hotel bills. “The ticket will arrive as soon as possible and will bring the city €24 million a … Continue reading →

Filed under Venice · Tagged with business, city, environment, hotel, Italy, museum, tax, tourist, Venice

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
SKY NEWS LIVE INTERVIEW WITH ME ON ITALY, ELECTIONS AND EU EXIT
‘Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans’. Debate at ‘Battle of Ideas’ Conference, Barbican, London, 17 October 2015. Click on image below for 6 minute film of introductory remarks by Dominic Standish
‘Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans’. Click on ‘Battle of Ideas’ image below for debate speaker and topic details, plus a Soundcloud link to listen to the debate.
Inside Venice’s bid to hold back the tide – my comments in The Guardian newspaper website. Click on the picture below to go to the article
Film of debate: ‘Death in Venice: Is Tourism Killing or Saving the City?’ Click on the image below to view this film
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).
‘Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation.’ Click on the image below for a link to the paper

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

Useful website links

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

Sky news live interview with me on Italy, government, new elections and Italy exit from the EU

THE THWARTING OF ITALIAN DEMOCRACY. My article on Italy, its election and towards a new government. Published by Spiked

NOW IT’S TIME FOR ‘ITALEAVE’ – My article on Italy’s general election

Paper published about Venice and Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation

Tourist tax for Venice?

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

SKY NEWS LIVE INTERVIEW WITH ME ON ITALY, ELECTIONS AND EU EXIT

‘Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans’. Debate at ‘Battle of Ideas’ Conference, Barbican, London, 17 October 2015. Click on image below for 6 minute film of introductory remarks by Dominic Standish

‘Plumbing the depths: the battle for the oceans’. Click on ‘Battle of Ideas’ image below for debate speaker and topic details, plus a Soundcloud link to listen to the debate.

Inside Venice’s bid to hold back the tide – my comments in The Guardian newspaper website. Click on the picture below to go to the article

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

Saving and modernizing Venice represents the challenge of rescuing human achievement.

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

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