World Heritage and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2020) | Viewed by 54802
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biomimetic and bioinspired design; built environment; LCA; durability
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Interests: climate change adaptation; ecosystem management; world heritage; watershed management; decision making
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
World Heritage represents natural and cultural resources so exceptional they should be conserved for all humankind forever. World Heritage sites and objects are the best of the best. Yet, many natural and cultural World Heritage sites are at risk from climate change. There is urgent need to understand the ways climate threatens various sites and artifacts, and to understand what adaptation strategies if any are appropriate for their conservation. The literature over the last 10 years is replete with discussions of risk assessments, planning strategies, and adaptation plans. We are awash with information but impeded by a dearth of understanding. This Special Issue brings together a select group of authors, each of whom brings together the available information on World Heritage in a changing climate. Each invited paper addresses a subset of the natural or built environment and synthesizes what is known and what uncertainties face decision makers.
Assoc. Prof. Chiara Bertolin
Prof. Dr. Jim Perry
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- World Heritage
- natural and built environment
- decision making
- climate change
- climate change reconstruction and scenarios
- historical city center
- coastal erosion and sea level rise impacting coastal cities
- floods and landslides
- wind storm and heavy rainfall
- adaptation
- early warning systems at building, district, and urban scale
- impact assessment in post-disaster situations
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