Currently I'm working on complex Terms, next week it will be dedicated to a variety of thematic short talks in three focus groups:
•Tangible Heritage
• Intangible Heritage
• Digitalisation in Cultural Heritage
I will talk about the impacts of climate change on Tangible Heritage
Thanks on advance
About tangible heritage:
Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore , traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally ...
Dear Hossam,
I send you this page just in case you don´t know it
https://whc.unesco.org/en/climatechange/
Hello Hossam
There are a infinite number of damages that occur on tangible cultural heritage, even in the daily because matter and its energy are in constant change. Therefore, I agree with what Professor Kenneth said, the first step would be to know how Climate Change has been defined so you can synthesize it into the path of cultural heritage.
Greetings to all.
I agree with the comments of both Profssor Perez and professorTowe. Tangible heritage normally refers to tangible cultural assets such as artifacts, buildiings and cultural landscapes. You may want to look at the short article on the headword Climate Change written by Susan Beckan in Encyclopedia of Tourism (Springer, 2016: 164-165). It gives a good overview of the topic of climate change when viewed from a tourism perspective. See too, the work of the Canadian climatologist David Scott on this subject.
I support your view Dr Hossam Ismael.
I have worked in Arunachal Pradesh state of India which is inhabited by 126 ethnic communities having unique cultural heritage but they have their own language of conversation.In remote areas, a person of one ethnic community can not share his views with another person of the other ethnic community.But the scenario is changing now.
We must work on these aspects.
Kenneth,
The Encyclopedia of Tourism article written by Susan Becken does not speak directlly on the relationship between climate change and tangible culture per se, she does however reference a few of her most noteworthy publications on the general topic of the interelationship between climate change and tourism as well as those of David Scott and his colleagues. Both have written extensively on this subject including the impacts on tourism assets in general, and their writings can be found in a wide range of related publications.
Some of her more "pithy" statements include the following:
- "The observed warming of the global climate system is 'unequivocal'.
- "There is widespread observational evidence that changing climatic conditions have profound impacts on natural and human-influenced environmental systems." (which would include cultural landscapes as a part of tangible heritage assets).
- "Significantly, all forms of tourism depend considerably on the climate...and this industry is highly subject to changes in the climate system."
Scott
We have a number of examples in India. Climate change and tourism are two core factors that caused changes in tangible cultural features in different places in India. My recent visit to Kedarnath (altitude 3600 meters) religious place in India, which faced a very high magnitude natural disaster in 2013) gave me insight on how tourist movements are connected with climate change.
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