(World) Heritage Sites and Values in Danger: Climate-Change Related Challenges and Transformation

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Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and other regional or global challenges, like armed conflict, demographic changes, economic crises, mass tourism and many others, pose serious threats and have had a great impact on many (world) heritage sites around the globe. A significant number of sites are affected in a negative way, as heritage values are in danger and different parts of complete heritage systems are impacted. The understanding of cultural heritage is a holistic heritage approach that goes beyond traditional sectors of heritage as being tangible and intangible, but rather embraces the different parts together with people from cultural heritage. This MDPI topic collection across different scientific journals seeks to achieve the following aims:

• To discuss challenges, threats and transformation at (world) heritage sites;
• To provide examples and case studies to understand the effects and impacts;
• To contextualize change and transformation from a theoretical perspective;
• To understand the impact on heritage systems with a new heritage approach;
• To provide insights into successful governance approaches and tools to stimulate resilience for heritage sites;
• To reflect on recovery and mitigation approaches that are based on cultural heritage;
• To understand how the impacts are affecting different parts and users of the heritage systems.

Dr. Matthias Ripp
Prof. Dr. Christer Gustafsson
Dr. Rohit Jigyasu
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Climate climate	3.0	5.5	2013	21.9 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Heritage heritage	2.0	2.9	2018	17.7 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
Tourism and Hospitality tourismhosp	-	3.0	2020	22.7 Days	CHF 1200	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	6.8	2009	20 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Conservation conservation	-	-	2021	39.7 Days	CHF 1000	Submit

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