Sustainable Heritage-in-Practice: Relationships, Goals, Localization and Models

Ross, Susan M.

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-2123-2_7

Susan M. Ross¹⁵

Part of the book series: Creativity, Heritage and the City ((CHC,volume 5))

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This chapter expands on the discussion at the 2011 Montreal Round Table on The Impact of Sustainability Strategies on Heritage Conservation Practices. The Montreal meetings fostered insight into the rapidly evolving wider international context of the heritage-and-sustainability discourse, revealing a back-and-forth dynamic between the global and the local, contributing to a constant re-examination of the discipline’s knowledge base and goals. Consideration of this global/local interface is also key to defining and modelling effective and inspiring sustainable heritage practices. The chapter reviews important developments in sustainability-to-heritage interactions in theory and policy, converging on expanded goals for sustainable heritage conservation identified about 2015. Selected opportunities for sustainability and stewardship are discussed in two examples of localized urban conservation and planning practices that were presented at the 2011 meeting: Green Energy Benny Farm in Montreal, and University of British Columbia’s UBC Renew program and the Buchanan Building in Vancouver. This reflection contributes constructive perspectives to future contexts of integrated sustainable heritage and conservation practice. Borrowing on findings from the study of sustainability-in-practice, it is proposed that sustainable-heritage-in-practice needs to be holistic, collaborative, and process-oriented while striving to balance complex and shifting goals.

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1.
Cameron and Dailoo, Impact of Sustainability Strategies, 1–256.
2.
This was mainly through her work with the Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation of the Association for Preservation Technology. An early example of the discussion in this context is the series of articles in Bulletin for the Association of Preservation Technology 36, no. 4 (2005). Powter and Ross, “Integrating Environmental,” 5–11.
3.
From March 2014 to December 2018, the author brought a group of students from Carleton University to the meetings.
4.
For an early exchange on this see Teutonico and Matero, Managing Change.
5.
Reed and Massie, “What’s Left?” 200.
6.
Turner, “World Heritage,” 8.
7.
Robinson and Cole, “Theoretical Underpinnings,” 133–43; Reed and Massie, “What’s Left,” 200–25.
8.
This is perhaps most easily be identified with the emergence of critical heritage studies.
9.
Two different shifts in paradigm are described in Araoz “Preserving Heritage Places,” 55–60; Boccardi, “From Mitigation to Adaptation,” 87–97.
10.
Harvey and Perry, The Future.
11.
See for example Harrison, Appelgren and Bohlin, “Commentary,” 209–20; Khalaf. “Cultural Heritage Reconstruction,” 1–17; Wiggins, “Eroding Paradigms,” 122–30.
12.
Larsen and Logan, World Heritage, 7.
13.
Young, Stewardship, 5.
14.
Fairclough, “The Cultural Context,” 125–7.
15.
Albert, “Mission and Vision,” 11–9; Labadi and Gould, “Sustainable Development,” 196–216.
16.
Preservation Green Lab, The Greenest Building.
17.
Webb, “Energy Retrofits.” 748–59.
18.
Avrami, “The Contribution.” 69–79.
19.
Wagner, “Finding a Seat,” 11.
20.
Pollock-Ellwand, “Common Ground,” 236–42.
21.
Harmon, “A Bridge.” 380–92; Harrison, “Beyond ‘Natural’ and ‘Cultural’ Heritage,” 24–42.
22.
Berthold, et al., “Using Sustainability Indicators,” 23–34; Landorf, “Evaluating Social Sustainability,” 463–77.
23.
Larsen and Jensen, “Current Work,” 1–8.
24.
Engineers Canada. “National Guideline,” 4.
25.
Avrami, Preservation.
26.
UNESCO, “Policy Document for the Integration.”
27.
UNESCO, “Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape.”
28.
UNESCO, “Policy Document for the Integration.”
29.
Larsen and Logan, World Heritage, 7.
30.
ICOMOS, Cultural Heritage.
31.
IUCN, Sustaining Development.
32.
Osipova, Badman and Larsen, “The Role of World Heritage,” 155–67.
33.
Elefante, “The Greenest Building,” 67–72.
34.
Avrami, et al., “Confronting Exclusion,” 102–20; Barthel Bouchier, Cultural Heritage; de Marco et al., “ ‘No Past, No Future?’ ” 168–79.
35.
Boccardi, “From Mitigation to Adaptation,” 95.
36.
Jigyasu, Heritage and Resilience, 1–58.
37.
Local 2030, ‘Scaling and Accelerating.”
38.
Dalibard, “Heritage Begins at Home,” 8–10.
39.
Carmosino, “World Heritage,” 1–11.
40.
Galla, World Heritage.
41.
Labadi and Logan, Urban Heritage, 1.
42.
ICOMOS, Cultural Heritage; ICOMOS, ICOMOS Action Plan.
43.
Berenfeld, “Climate Change,” 66–82.
44.
Francis, Striving for Environmental Sustainability, 21–47.
45.
Oldekorp et al., “A Global Assessment,” 133–41.
46.
Labadi and Gould, “Sustainable Development,” 196–216.
47.
Galla, World Heritage, 331.
48.
Pawlowska-Mainville and Kulchyski, “The Incalculable Weight,” 134.
49.
Pimachiowin Aki Corp, “Pimachiowin Aki.”
50.
See Chap. 10.
51.
Truth and Reconciliation, Calls to Action.
52.
Jessiman, “Challenges,” 80–92.
53.
See also Ross, “How Green,” 67–72.
54.
Goldie, “Renewing Social Housing.”
55.
Parks Canada, Building Resilience, 52.
56.
Pearl and Wentz, Benny Farm and Rosemont.
57.
McGeough, “UBC Renews,” 182–94.
58.
Tomaszweska, “Post-War Reconstruction.”
59.
University of British Columbia, “Green Buildings.”
60.
See for example the discussions on existing buildings and materials and the circular economy at BAMB, “Summary of BAMB Final.”
61.
Francis, Striving for Environmental Sustainability, 20; Witcomb and Buckley, “Engaging,” 562–78.
62.
A number of other chapters in this volume are likely to overlap with sustainability as it relates to heritage conservation practices, including Chaps. 2, 4, 9, 10 and 11. The relationship of sustainability to climate change is particularly important, as it is not always understood.
63.
Robinson and Cole, “Theoretical Underpinnings,”133; Fredengren, “Nature: Cultures,” 109.

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Ross, S.M. (2023). Sustainable Heritage-in-Practice: Relationships, Goals, Localization and Models. In: Cameron, C. (eds) Evolving Heritage Conservation Practice in the 21st Century. Creativity, Heritage and the City, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2123-2_7

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