Climate change as a threat to peace : impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity / Sabine von Schorlemer, Sylvia Maus (eds.).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schorlemer, Sabine von., Editor.

Contributor:

Schorlemer, Sabine von, editor.

Maus, Sylvia, 1982- editor.

Series:

Dresdner Schriften zu Recht und Politik der Vereinten Nationen ; Band 19.

Dresdner Schriften zu Recht und Politik der Vereinten Nationen, 1862-443X ; Band 19 = Dresden Papers on Law and Policy of the United Nations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Climatic changes.

Environmental law, International--Congresses.

Environmental law, International.

Climatic changes--Political aspects--Congresses.

Cultural property--Protection--Law and legislation--Congresses.

Cultural property.

International law and human rights--Congresses.

International law and human rights.

Security, International--Congresses.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Place of Publication:

Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2015

Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : PL Academic Research, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 triang

Contents:

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Reflections on Climate Change, Heritage and Peace / Sabine von Schorlemer & Sylvia Maus

Part 1: Interdiscipinary Approaches of Linking Climate Change with Politics and Law of Cultural Heritage

Man-made Climate Change: A Major Challenge for World Heritage Conservation / Bernd von Droste zu Hülshoff

Climate Change as a Threat to International Peace – The Role of the UN Security Council / Gunter Pleuger

The United Nations Human Rights-Based Approach to Climate Change – Introducing a Human Dimension to International limate Law / Franziska Knur

Part 2: Impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diversity

Urban Resilience in Climate Change / Michael Turner & Rachel Singer

The Impact of Climate Change on Slow Degradation of Monuments in Contrast to Extreme Events / Roger-Alexandre Lefèvre

Impact of Global Change on World Heritage and on Environmental Resources: The Need for an Integrated Management Approach / Reza Ardakanian & Stephan Hülsmann

The Culture of Prevention: Heritage and Resilience / Elizabeth Longworth

Part 3: 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? / Guido Carducci

Protecting the Tangible, Safeguarding the Intangible: A Same Conventional Model for Different Needs / Federico Lenzerini

The Cultural Dimension of Climate Change: Some Remarks on the Interface between Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Law / Alessandro Chechi

World Cultural Heritage Sites and Climate Change: Management Issues / Birgitta Ringbeck

Concluding Remarks / Roland Bernecker.

Notes:

"The contributions collected in this volume stem from an international conference entitled Climate Change as a Threat to Peace: Impacts on Cultural Heritage and Cultural Diversity, hosted by the German Commission for UNESCO and the UNESCO Chair in International Relations at the Technische Universität Dresden"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783653968507

365396850X

9783653052053

365305205X

OCLC:

904800477

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access