By considering climate changeClimate change as a disasterDisaster risk driver, this chapter explores cultural heritage’sCultural heritage complex interrelationship with climate changeClimate change, retracing such synergies within significant international documents, roadmaps, and scholarly debates at the international level. It informs the readers about climate changeClimate change, its challenges, and its effects on cultural heritageCultural heritage, considering climate scienceClimate science and heritageHeritage fields. The chapter argues for a possible role of heritageHeritage in response to climate changeClimate change. In specific, it critically reviews significant existing international policy documents such as the 2015 UN Paris Agreement, the 2017 UNESCOUNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change (SACC), the 2019 European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage (EFACH), and the 2020 ICOMOSICOMOS Resolution 20GA/15-Cultural Heritage and the Climate Emergency by which it provides us a better understanding of the matter in hand while reflecting on constructive ways to shift our shared mission to action by looking into a few transformative initiatives.

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Cultural Heritage and Climate Change

  • Mehrnaz Rajabi

摘要

By considering climate changeClimate change as a disasterDisaster risk driver, this chapter explores cultural heritage’sCultural heritage complex interrelationship with climate changeClimate change, retracing such synergies within significant international documents, roadmaps, and scholarly debates at the international level. It informs the readers about climate changeClimate change, its challenges, and its effects on cultural heritageCultural heritage, considering climate scienceClimate science and heritageHeritage fields. The chapter argues for a possible role of heritageHeritage in response to climate changeClimate change. In specific, it critically reviews significant existing international policy documents such as the 2015 UN Paris Agreement, the 2017 UNESCOUNESCO Strategy for Action on Climate Change (SACC), the 2019 European Framework for Action on Cultural Heritage (EFACH), and the 2020 ICOMOSICOMOS Resolution 20GA/15-Cultural Heritage and the Climate Emergency by which it provides us a better understanding of the matter in hand while reflecting on constructive ways to shift our shared mission to action by looking into a few transformative initiatives.