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[Extract] Executive Summary This Cultural Assets Literature Review and Research Synthesis report was undertaken by The Cairns Institute for the Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW. The project collates available information relevant to the understanding and mitigation of climate change impacts on cultural assets and seeks to draw out the themes and issues relevant to the broader Sydney area. The project components were conducted within a relatively tight time frame. These included a literature review, a survey of practitioners and agencies and local governments and 6 targeted interviews based in part on the feedback from the survey. Planning and preliminary work for the project began in late April and the literature review and survey was undertaken in May 2012. An EndNote database of all the literature reviewed was compiled. There are 324 references included in this database (see Appendix A). The targeted interviews were undertaken in July 2012. There were 47 respondents to the online survey. Significant themes and issues emerged from the literature review and survey including: • Lack of research funding; • Lack of political will and leadership on the part of government; • Frustration that climate change impacts on cultural heritage are not being addressed by governments at all levels in Australia; • The need for fine grained site specific research to go beyond general predictions; • Opportunities for information sharing relating to research projects and outcomes between researchers, cultural asset managers and policy makers. • The value of small community based projects AND • The needed for larger scale projects that can draw together the knowledge gained from the geographically scattered projects into a more coherent picture; • The importance of regular maintenance in maximising the resilience of cultural assets in the face of change; • The need for long term monitoring of cultural assets and the collation and dissemination of this data; • The importance of specific research on new pests and changing conditions and ways to mitigate these impacts; • The importance of local council and state government agencies to build cultural assets into their general climate change preparedness, and • A perceived urgency for identifying the likelihood of specific sites being negatively impacted and the development of priorities for research, mitigation and salvage. There is broad recognition that cultural assets will suffer both direct and indirect impacts as a result of climate change. Direct bio-physical impacts are generally likely to involve an escalation in frequency or an increase in intensity of the impacts that assets are already subjected to. Such impacts are likely to be cumulative over time. However some direct impacts for some cultural assets may be catastrophic. For example coastal sites that currently experience impacts such as salt corrosion, saltwater inundation, and heavy rain from coastal storms are expected to experience these impacts with increasing frequency. Strategies such as building the resilience of cultural assets through regular maintenance, effectively protecting assets from known and existing biophysical impacts and understanding when these impacts become critical through effective monitoring are the key to the sound management of cultural assets in the face of a changing climate. There is an urgent need to audit and assess the range, significance and distribution of cultural assets that might be affected by climate change and develop an informed response. Such a response might involve a range of interventions such as recording, salvage excavation, and stabilization. It is also important for governments to begin a conversation with the community about the nature and likelihood of climate change impacts on their cultural assets and to better understand community expectations for the management of these places. In many cases existing projects and programs may be able to be adapted so that they adequately address the issue of climate change and cultural heritage although increased investment in research and conservation activity will be required. Unfortunately, it is clear that governments in Australia are under- investing in cultural assets and this must be addressed. The cost of inaction now will compound the cost of remedial action for future generations as well as exacerbate the non-monetary costs associated with the social impact of the unnecessary loss of cultural heritage places and values. The climate change focus of local governments needs to shift from the immediate urgency of 'liability' back to a focus on nurturing and working for communities. In the short term however these fundamental shifts are unlikely to occur and this report has identified a number of opportunities to advance our understanding of the impacts of climate change on cultural assets and to develop useful projects with little additional financial commitment. These opportunities involve Local Government broadening existing projects and the State Government facilitating effective action through information sharing and the provisions of tools such as web based information repositories. The lessons from this research are not restricted to government. There is a body of research that indicated that there is a human tendency to be poorly prepared for distant, future and abstract risks and there is increasing concern that the professionalization of the cultural heritage industry has led to disengagement with heritage at the community level. Therefore it is essential that the heritage profession (including both individual practitioners and non government organisations) and asset managers find new ways to capture community attention to this important issue through communicating 'emotive and concrete understandings of heritage loss' (McCarthy 2011:9).

This paper explores the history of the first European symphony orchestra established in China, which developed from a municipal 'Public Band' formally stated in 1879. It describes the political and cultural debates which accompanied its development, and offers a preliminary assessment of its legacies.

BACKGROUND: The inclusion of protective factors ("assets") are increasingly supported in developing culturally grounded interventions for American Indian (AI) populations. This study sought to explore AI women's cultural assets, perspectives, and teachings to inform the development of a culturally grounded, intergenerational intervention to prevent substance abuse and teenage pregnancy among AI females. METHODS: Adult self-identified AI women (N = 201) who reside on the Navajo Nation completed a cross-sectional survey between May and October 2018. The 21-question survey explored health communication around the transition to womanhood, cultural assets, perceptions of mother–daughter reproductive health communication, and intervention health topics. Univariate descriptive analyses, chi squared, and fisher's exact tests were conducted. RESULTS: Respondents ranged in age from 18 to 82 years, with a mean age of 44 ± 15.5 years. Women self-identified as mothers (95; 48%), aunts (59; 30%), older sisters (55; 28%), grandmothers (37; 19%), and/or all of the aforementioned (50; 25%). 66% (N = 95) of women admired their mother/grandmother most during puberty; 29% (N = 58) of women were 10–11 years old when someone first spoke to them about menarche; and 86% (N=172) felt their culture was a source of strength. 70% (N = 139) would have liked to learn more about reproductive health when they were a teenager; 67% (N = 134) felt Diné mothers are able to provide reproductive health education; 51% (N = 101) reported having a rite of passage event, with younger women desiring an event significantly more than older women. Responses also indicate a disruption of cultural practices due to government assimilation policies, as well as the support of male relatives during puberty. CONCLUSIONS: Results informed intervention content and delivery, including target age group, expanded caregiver eligibility criteria, lesson delivery structure and format, and protective cultural teachings. Other implications include the development of a ...

Typical for the last decades economical and social processes at metropolitan level induce new models of spatial organization characterized by extensive urban development. These extensive processes configure various components of the cultural landscape in different ways. Such development modifies the rural, agricultural and industrial landscapes and generates new landscape typologies modeled by interaction between urban and rural space. Diverse approaches of urban development have modified the territorial structure and also the way in which the territory visually and dynamically responds to external factors by transforming the main cultural features. In such a context, preservation of common agricultural landscape as a part of cultural landscape is becoming an important issue for the local development policies. Santrauka Pastaraisiais dešimtmečiais didmiesčiuose vykstantys ekonominiai ir socialiniai procesai skatina naujus erdvių planavimo modelius, būdingus ekstensyviai urbanistinei plėtrai. Su plėtra susiję procesai skirtingais būdais konfigūruoja įvairius kultūrinio kraštovaizdžio komponentus. Ši plėtra keičia kaimo, agrokultūrinį ar produktyvųjį kraštovaizdį ir sukuria naujus kraštovaizdžio tipus, modeliuojamus esant kaimo ir miesto erdvių sąveikai. Įvairūs požiūriai į urbanistinę plėtrą pakeitė teritorinę struktūrą, vizualią ir dinamišką teritorijos reakciją į išorės veiksnius pagal pasikeitusius esminius kultūros požymius. Šiame kontekste įprasto agrokultūrinio kraštovaizdžio kaip dalies kultūrinio kraštovaizdžio išsaugojimas tampa opiu vietinės plėtros politikos klausimu. Raktiniai žodžiai:urbanistinė plėtra; agrokultūrinis krašto­vaizdis; kraštovaizdžio pokyčiai; teritorijų dinamiškumas

The attractiveness of cities and their national and international competitiveness are partly determined by "soft" and "intangible" factors: cultural, social, and individual aspects are becoming the basis for the "unique competitive edge" that cities have and play a crucial role with regard to the creation of identity. In Delhi, every epoch of the city's rich history has left its traces, and the Indian capital has numerous monuments, gardens, historic areas, and ancient buildings as a result. Affected by globalization and urbanization, Delhi has been increasingly turning into a globalized metropolis, which has had a major impact on its urban fabric. Framed against the backdrop of the changing concepts and perception of urban heritage, this article focuses on the question of how Delhi's unique urban heritage should be safeguarded. The responsibility for this task does not lie with the authorities alone, but is embedded in the complex structure of public, private, individual, and collective stakeholders acting at different levels with their respective interests. These diverse stakeholders act within the scope of a differentiated set of rules and legislation. Thus, safeguarding urban heritage and integrating it into the urban planning process requires laws and regulations specifically relevant to cultural heritage and not just planning instruments. The institutional and legal framework of heritage protection in Delhi, its implementation, and the complex challenges that go with this are investigated. (Asien/GIGA)