Description
Book SynopsisClimatic and Environmental Threats to Cultural Heritage examines the challenges that environmental change, both sudden and long-term, poses to the preservation of cultural material.
Acknowledging the diversity of human cultural heritage across collecting institutions, heritage sites and communities, the book highlights how, in Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific, the quest to preserve such precious knowledge relies on records and narratives being available to inform decisions now and into the future. Bringing together a diverse range of stakeholders who have an interest in and responsibility for the care of cultural heritage material and places of cultural heritage value, the book explores their thinking on and actions in relation to issues of climate change and environmental risk. Sloggett and Scott highlight the stakeholders' shared interest in drawing on their expertise to meet the challenges that environmental change brings to the future of our cultural he
Table of Contents
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.
