TY - MGZN
KW - Climate change (ICH\_1235)
KW - Environment (THE\_65229)
KW - SDG 13: Climate Action (ICH\_1391)
KW - SDG 15: Life on Land (ICH\_1392)
AU - F. Lenzerini
AB - The model of the World Heritage Convention, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in 1972, has emerged as one of the most successful ever established by an international convention aimed at protecting a common good, id est human rights, Cultural Heritage or environment. At present, the World Heritage Convention has been ratified by 191 states and 1.007 properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List,1 the keystone around which the system established by the Convention is centred. In light of the huge success which has characterized the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO has replicated its model in other legal instruments aimed at safeguarding Cultural Heritage in different contexts and/or of different kinds than the World Heritage Convention itself. This has happened, in particular, with respect to the scheme of enhanced protection established by the Second Protocol of 1999 to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict as well as to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. As far as the issue of climate change is concerned, both the World Heritage Convention and the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, through providing for general obligations for states parties to take the necessary measures to ensure protection/safeguarding of the heritage they respectively concern, as well as through establishing systems of international cooperation to this end, in principle provide the necessary tools to face the threats posed by climate change on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage. In practical terms, however, no adequate attention is devoted by both conventions to the threats of climate change. Nevertheless, in this respect the World Heritage Convention is certainly better equipped than the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In any event, the concrete preservation of Cultural Heritage against the above threats ultimately depends on the willingness and capacity of states parties to the respective conventions to take effective and efficient measures in order to properly address the specific problems faced by each manifestation of Cultural Heritage as a consequence of climate change.
C2 - Clim. Chang. as a Threat to Peace: Impacts on Cult. Herit. and Cult. Divers.
DO - 10.3726/978-3-653-05205-3
N1 - Journal Abbreviation: Clim. Chang. as a Threat to Peace: Impacts on Cult. Herit. and Cult. Divers.
N2 - The model of the World Heritage Convention, adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in 1972, has emerged as one of the most successful ever established by an international convention aimed at protecting a common good, id est human rights, Cultural Heritage or environment. At present, the World Heritage Convention has been ratified by 191 states and 1.007 properties are inscribed on the World Heritage List,1 the keystone around which the system established by the Convention is centred. In light of the huge success which has characterized the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO has replicated its model in other legal instruments aimed at safeguarding Cultural Heritage in different contexts and/or of different kinds than the World Heritage Convention itself. This has happened, in particular, with respect to the scheme of enhanced protection established by the Second Protocol of 1999 to the 1954 Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict as well as to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. As far as the issue of climate change is concerned, both the World Heritage Convention and the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, through providing for general obligations for states parties to take the necessary measures to ensure protection/safeguarding of the heritage they respectively concern, as well as through establishing systems of international cooperation to this end, in principle provide the necessary tools to face the threats posed by climate change on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage. In practical terms, however, no adequate attention is devoted by both conventions to the threats of climate change. Nevertheless, in this respect the World Heritage Convention is certainly better equipped than the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In any event, the concrete preservation of Cultural Heritage against the above threats ultimately depends on the willingness and capacity of states parties to the respective conventions to take effective and efficient measures in order to properly address the specific problems faced by each manifestation of Cultural Heritage as a consequence of climate change.
PB - Peter Lang AG
SN - 9783653052053 (ISBN); 9783631662236 (ISBN)
SP - 141
EP - 160
TI - Protecting the tangible, safeguarding the intangible: A same conventional model for different needs
VL - 19
ER -