Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage

ISBN-13: 9780367756383 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 208 str.

Marcelle Scott

Opis

Climatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material.　

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Story of Climate Change: Narratives as influencers; Chapter 2 Finding unexpected data from the historical record; Chapter 3 My Country is Changing: Indigenous perspectives on climate change; Chapter 4 Climate change and rock art: a valuable resource at risk; Chapter 5 Oral histories of natural disasters in Timor Leste; Chapter 6 Changed responses to the changing threat of climate-induced fire and drought; Chapter 7 The Local in the Global: community impact and response; Chapter 8 Issues for Institutions: the imperative for heritage organisations to lead the way; Chapter 9 Conservation Education and Climate Change: What would a resilience-based conservation curriculum look like?; Epilogue; Index.