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1 online resource (xviii, 547 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Inclusive museum series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-547). |
| Contents |
Culture, last cab off the climate rank -- The cultural Conventions -- standard bearers for protection -- The science. Climate change: causes and physical and biological impacts -- Gaia theory and Mother Earth rights -- Physical and biological impacts of climate change on cultural heritage -- Climate change impacts on humans. Human impacts on cultural heritage -- Climate change, displacement and migration -- Climate change, health and cultural heritage -- Climate change vulnerability and cultural heritage -- Climate change, mitigation and adaptation -- Culturally sustainable development and climate change -- Knowledge sharing, cultural heritage and climate change -- Climate change justice and heritage -- What do the statistics indicate about the protection of world cultural heritage against damage caused by climate change? -- How do the Conventions address the physical and biological impacts of climate change on cultural heritage? -- How do the Conventions address the "human impacts" of climate change on heritage? -- Do the Conventions respond to climate change induced displacement and cultural loss? -- How do the Conventions address climate change-induced health impacts on the custodians and their community? -- How are the Conventions addressing climate change vulnerability, risk, equity and marginality? -- How do the Conventions address the need for climate change mitigation? -- How do the Conventions address the need for climate change adaptation? -- How do the Conventions address climate change threats to the sustainable development of cultural heritage? -- Do the Conventions have means of sharing knowledge to address climate change impacts on cultural heritage? -- Can the Conventions address climate justice, human rights and cultural rights issues relating to climate change impacts on cultural heritage? -- How do the Conventions address climate change-induced threats to the security of cultural heritage? -- How have the legal powers of the World Heritage Convention protected world heritage from the impacts of climate change? -- Comparing the Conventions -- Framework for addressing climate change -- Climate change and cultural heritage case study: Leh, Ladakh, India -- Conclusion: The future is with us. |
| Summary |
"'International heritage instruments and climate change' considers the current and potential effectiveness of two UNESCO instruments, the 1972 'Convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage' (the World Heritage Convention) and the 2003 'Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage' (the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention), in protecting and safeguarding the world's cultural heritage against the escalating threat from climate change. The book opens with a discussion of cultural heritage, the conventions, the science of climate change and related philosophy. It then considers the threat that climate change poses to cultural heritage, both directly and indirectly (through climate change's effects on humanity). Following this is a forensic interrogation of the conventions to determine their likely effectiveness. Questions posed relate to climate change vulnerability, lega efficacy, sustainable development and human issues such as displacement, health threats, security, climate justice, ethics and impacts leading to marginality and cultural loss. Recommendations are made as to how the conventions might be fortified to better protect and safeguard cultural heritage. Finally the book presents a case study built around the culturally rich region of Leh, Ladakh, which was recently devastated by climate change linked flooding and landslides. The authors conclude that cultural heritage protection and safeguarding is indivisible from the survival of civilisation. Adaptive measures to climate change can only be of limited temporary help providing little more than palliation. Mitigation is essential to the continuation of both civilisation and cultural heritage. Strengthened conventions, boldly administered and publicly engaged are seen as potentially providing an improved change for both heritage and humanity."--Back cover |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cultural property -- Protection -- Political aspects.
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Political aspects. |
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Cultural property -- Protection. |
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Political aspects. |
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Klimaänderung. |
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Kulturerbe. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sheridan, John (John W.), 1941-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sheridan, Rae. International heritage instruments and climate change. Champaign, Illinois : Common Ground, 2013 9781612290713 (DLC) 2012028444 (OCoLC)809365627 |
| ISBN |
9781612290720 (electronic book) |
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1612290728 (electronic book) |
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9781612290713 |
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161229071X |
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1612290728 |
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