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Venice is a glory of human achievement, and this book is the human-centered defense that the city deserves. -- Mick Hume, columnist for The Times (London) ...A groundbreaking book for understanding the politicization of the environment. -- Dr. Frank Furedi, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent at Canterbury ...In Venice it's impossible to ignore the cases where the science has been affected by politics. -- Jane Da Mosto, co-author of The Science of Saving Venice Standish has succeeded in locating the transforming history of Venice as metaphor for Western preoccupations and self-understanding - from the highest realization of mercantile politics and republican statehood through romance and degenerate decadence, to its contemporary invocation as a symbol of unease and discomfort with the achievements of modernity and the attempt to master nature. This is an important contribution to the critique of the diminished political and historical imagination that underpins the construction of climate change as an insurmountable social problem. -- Dr. James Panton Standish's project is to re-conceptualize Venice's historic relationship to human endeavor and to remind us that it was the energy and innovation of Venetians themselves that made Venice great. He succeeds admirably. His book is a valuable contribution not only to Venice's future but to the wider debate on the efficacy of human intervention. -- Alan Hudson, director of Leadership Programs for China, University of Oxford

Venice is a glory of human achievement, and this book is the human-centered defense that the city deserves. -- Hume, Mick !A groundbreaking book for understanding the politicization of the environment. -- Dr. Furedi, Frank !In Venice it's impossible to ignore the cases where the science has been affected by politics. -- Da Mosto, Jane Standish has succeeded in locating the transforming history of Venice as metaphor for Western preoccupations and self-understanding - from the highest realization of mercantile politics and republican statehood through romance and degenerate decadence, to its contemporary invocation as a symbol of unease and discomfort with the achievements of modernity and the attempt to master nature. This is an important contribution to the critique of the diminished political and historical imagination that underpins the construction of climate change as an insurmountable social problem. -- Dr. Panton, James Standish's project is to re-conceptualize Venice's historic relationship to human endeavor and to remind us that it was the energy and innovation of Venetians themselves that made Venice great. He succeeds admirably. His book is a valuable contribution not only to Venice's future but to the wider debate on the efficacy of human intervention. -- Hudson, Alan

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Dominic Standish, Ph.D., is British and lectures for the University of Iowa at its CIMBA campus in the Venice region of Italy, where he has lived since 1997 (see www.dominicstandish.com for more information).

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