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Cultural heritage

Efforts to protect cultural heritage from disaster risk, including tangible heritage (monuments, archaeological sites, paintings, manuscripts, sculpture) and intangible heritage (inherited traditions or living expressions).

Latest Cultural heritage additions in the Knowledge Base

Kids at Holi festival
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Climate change increases risks of hot weather for Holi 2024

Hot temperatures are an increasing health concern in India and around the world. For this analysis, the authors focused on the chance that people celebrating Holi would encounter temperatures above 40°C.
Climate Central
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Archaeological sites in North Carolina under threat from sea level rise and storms

Some sites have been used by humans for thousands of years.
Yale Climate Connections
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As climate change fractures communities, folklorists help stitch them back together

From Appalachia to the Bayou to the desert Southwest, here's how culture can teach us about adapting to a warmer world.
Grist Magazine
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Tuvalu preserves history online as rising seas threaten existence

Tuvalu is among nations digitising heritage in the face of climate impacts, but there are concerns around cost, access and control.
Context
Research briefs

Climate change threatens thousands of archaeological sites in coastal Georgia

Thousands of historic and archaeological sites in Georgia are at risk from tropical storm surges, and that number will increase with climate change, according to a new study.
ScienceDaily
Australian native performing traditional ritual with fire.
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Climate change will strike Australia’s precious World Heritage sites – and Indigenous knowledge is a key defence

Bringing climate science and Indigenous knowledge systems together promises to produce better results for heritage protection as the climate changes. And there is no time to waste.
Conversation Media Group, the
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The Mogao caves: Preserving cultural heritage in a changing climate

Many researchers believe that China’s arid northwest is becoming warmer and wetter. Frequent temperature changes contribute to fresco damage, and many are concerned about the Mogao paintings.
China Dialogue
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Sanchay: Fragility or resilience? The climate-culture story of Jodhpur

This documentary explores the city of Jodhpur, and how climate change is affecting the lives of its residents. The revival of age-old traditions and their innovative adaptation to modern needs may be the only path forward
Green Risk-Informed Resilient Development (GRRID) Corps
Confederation of Risk Reduction Professionals

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