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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).

My live TV interview on TRT World News on the day large cruise ships were banned from the centre of Venice. This ban reveals this unelected Italian government cares more about UNESCO threats and its international reputation than Venetians

Posted by Dominic Standish on July 14, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Click on the play symbol in the picture on the left to watch the interview. On 13 July 2021, the Italian government cabinet passed a decree banning ships of more than 25,000 tonnes, higher than 35 metres and longer than 180 metres from navigating down the Giudecca Canal in the centre of Venice from 1 … Continue reading →

Filed under Blogroll, Venice · Tagged with cruise ships, Death, democracy, environment, lagoon, Mario Draghi, Overtourism, pollution, Port, Safeguarding, safety, Tourism, UNESCO, Venetians, Venice

New funds for Venice’s mobile dams

Posted by Dominic Standish on July 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Despite the Italian government’s recent €48 billion deficit reduction plan, new funding of €630 million has been agreed for Venice’s mobile dam project. This tranche of €630 million will be provided by 31 December 2011 and will need to be followed by successive tranches of €470 million in 2012 and €450 million in 2013 to … Continue reading →

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Stopping the development of Venice’s Piazzale Roma

Posted by Dominic Standish on February 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Plans to develop the vehicle arrival point in Venice, Piazzale Roma, have been challenged by Venice’s Safeguarding Commission. Over the last 2-3 years, plans have evolved to double the size of the San Marco parking facility alongside the square of Piazzale Roma. Given the inadequate parking facilities in Venice, this would reduce queuing for parking … Continue reading →

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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
‘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
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
Venice suffered its worst floods for 20 years in 2019. My interview on Euronews
‘VENICE ASKS OTHER PORTS TO HELP FIND SOLUTION TO CRUISE SHIP PROBLEMS’. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE GUARDIAN INCLUDING MY COMMENTS
IMPROVING LAND USE TO FEED MORE PEOPLE. INTERVIEW WITH ME AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY SPECIALIST ON SKY NEWS LIVE
‘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 TITLE ABOVE TO LISTEN TO AN AUDIO FILE LINK
‘Italy: Renewables Policy as a Barrier to Energy Innovation.’ Click on the image below for a link to the paper
BBC World Service Radio and Podcast The Documentary "Cruising". Click on this link for an audio link with my comments after 3 minutes. 'Cruising: Bad for the World?'

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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.

My live TV interview on TRT World News on the day large cruise ships were banned from the centre of Venice. This ban reveals this unelected Italian government cares more about UNESCO threats and its international reputation than Venetians

New funds for Venice’s mobile dams

Stopping the development of Venice’s Piazzale Roma

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

‘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

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

Venice suffered its worst floods for 20 years in 2019. My interview on Euronews

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

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

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

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

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