Climate change as a threat to peace : impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity

This volume takes a fresh look at climate change as a threat to peace and its impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity. It proceeds under the assumption that the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. As innovative feature, the interdisciplinary nexus between cultural heritage and peace is explicitly taken account of. Accordingly, corresponding threats on climate change and conflict on the one hand, and protection of cultural property and climate change on the other, are pulled together into one conceptual triangle. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts tends to become more and more recognized, the crucial role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of building and securing of sustainable peace has so far been largely underestimated. This volume brings together opinions of renowned experts in the fields of international law as well as natural sciences, engineering, humanities and social sciences. The focus lays on the legal and institutional challenges faced by national and international stakeholders, by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in particular. Moreover, it alludes to broader issues of mitigation, adaptation and resilience.

• List of Abbreviations p. 7
• Reflections on Climate Change, Heritage and Peace p. 9 Sabine von Schorlemer and Sylvia Maus
• Interdiscipinary Approaches of Linking Climate Change with Politics and Law of Cultural Heritage
• Man-made Climate Change: A Major Challenge for World Heritage Conservation p. 27 Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff
• Climate Change as a Threat to International Peace - The Role of the UN Security Council p. 33 Gunter Pleuger
• The United Nations Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change - Introducing a Human Dimension to International Climate Law p. 37 Franziska Knur
• Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diversity
• Urban Resilience in Climate Change p. 63 Michael Turner and Rachel Singer
• The Impact of Climate Change on Slow Degradation of Monuments in Contrast to Extreme Events p. 83 Roger-Alexandre Lefèvre
• Impact of Global Change on World Heritage and on Environmental Resources: The Need for an Integrated Management Approach p. 101 Reza Ardakanian and Stephan Hülsmann
• The Culture of Prevention: Heritage and Resilience p. 119 Elizabeth Longworth
• Lex Lata and De Lege Ferenda - Legal Challenges of Cultural Property Protection in the Context of Climate Change
• What Consideration is Given to Climate and to Climate Change in the UNESCO Cultural Heritage and Property Conventions? p. 129 Guido Carducci
• Protecting the Tangible, Safeguarding the Intangible: A Same Conventional Model for Different Needs p. 141 Federico Lenzerini
• The Cultural Dimension of Climate Change: Some Remarks on the Interface between Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Law p. 161 Alessandro Chechi
• World Cultural Heritage Sites and Climate Change: Management Issues p. 199 Birgitta Ringbeck
• Concluding Remarks p. 205 Roland Bernecker