KC 1.1: Cultural Heritage and Climate Change: Exploring the Impacts and Issues

• Main Authors: Brabec, Elizabeth, Potts, Andrew, Polanco, Julianne
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2019
• Subjects: Cultural Landscapes; Rural Heritage; Climate Change; Rural Areas and Climate Impacts; Archaeological Anthropology; Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis; Historic Preservation and Conservation; Landscape Architecture; Social and Cultural Anthropology; Rapa; Rapa Nui; Skara; permafrost
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/icomos_isccl/2019/knowledge_cafes/1; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1115&context=icomos_isccl

As noted at the 2017 ICOMOS Assembly in Delhi, cultural heritage is both under threat from climate change, and an asset in our attempts to adapt to and mitigate its impacts. The Paris Agreement emphasizes the need for urgency about climate change; cultural heritage can play a central role in this ef...