Climate change as a threat to peace: impacts on cultural heritage and cultural diversity ; [the contributions ... 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]

Reflections on climate change, heritage and peace / Sabine von Schorlemer & Sylvia Maus -- 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 climate law / Franziska Knur -- 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 -- Lex lata and considerations on 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.

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 triangle. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts tends to become more and more recognized, the crucial role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of building and securing of sustainable peace has so far been largely underestimated

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