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Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution (2231), CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Socio-cultural Implications of Climate Change for Cultural Heritage
Professor May Cassar
University College LondonUCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage
United Kingdom
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
In 2008, World Monuments Watch and the World Monuments Fund provided dramatic evidence of the consequences of climate change when it listed a number of places at high risk of loss
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Herschel Island, 1890-1907
Canada (Credit: WMF)
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Scott’s Hut, Cape Evans, Ross Island, 1899-1917 Antarctica (Credit: WMF)
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Leh Old Town, 15th-17th C
Ladakh Region, Jammu & Kashmir, India (Credit: WMF)
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Kilwa Historic Sites, Tanzania
(Credit: WMF)
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Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Sonargaon-Panam City, 15th-19th C Bangladesh (Credit: WMF)
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
13thC Chinquetti Mosque, Mauritania (Credit: WMF)
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
Main criteria for inclusion of sites on the World Monuments Watch appear to be:
History, Significance and Climate Change Threats to the Archaeological or Historic fabric
But:
What of the Socio-Cultural Implications of climate change for cultural heritage?
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
What are the implications for the way we conduct research on climate change and cultural heritage?
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
1. Integrate the socio-cultural context into research
2. Be led by arts, humanities & social science research questions
3. Integrate quantitative & qualitative research methodologies
4. Develop participatory action research & involve communities directly or through proxies such as artists & sculptors, writers & poets to provide critical pathways for adaptation
5. Research outputs could include performances & exhibitions to engage the public with climate change in ways that are necessary and important
6. Arts and humanities, social sciences & economic disciplines provide different lenses through which to develop new responses to life-changing events
7. Develop a range of perspectives to improve our chances of co-creating sustainable survival strategies for cultural heritage
Cultural Heritage facing up to Climate Change, Sea Level Rise and Pollution, CFCC, Paris, 7th-10th July 2015
‘This issue is about the way we live, it is about who we are, what our relationship is with each other and the planet. And the cultural sector is perfectly positioned, I believe, to hold up a mirror to that and actually show us how we live, (and)… help us develop insights in that’.
Peter Gingold, Executive Director of Tipping Point