Climate Change, Resilience and Cultural Heritage: In-Between International Debates and Practical Encounters (PoliMI SpringerBriefs)

This book showcases the cross-disciplinary and 'systemic' relationships among climate change, resilience, and cultural heritage. It critically reviews the contemporary international documents and scholarly debates of the climate science, disaster risk management, and heritage fields and reveals that, within the comprehensive point of view, the potential and advances in one field could be instrumentalized in other fields. Moreover, it provides tailor-made considerations and practical recommendatory encounters toward resilient cultural heritage in facing climate change as a 'disaster risk driver '. Lastly, the book highlights the significance of the cultural dimension of climate change as well as the global landscape of systemic risk while redefining a new comprehensive and holistic definition of resilience for the heritage field.