2023 WHITRAP SHANGHAI World Heritage Dialogue World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience Disaster response and Emergency risk preparedness for heritage under climate change induced threats
Friday 21 April 2023
Online 14:00-16:30 Beijing time (UTC+8)
2023世界遗产对话世界遗产、气候变化和韧性——气候变化威胁下的遗产灾害响应和紧急风险应对 (guojiang.org)
Following the 6 WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogues organized in 2022 on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, WHITRAP Shanghai is continuing the World Heritage Dialogues series organized and hosted by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP) Tongji University (Shanghai, China) and WHITRAP Shanghai to deliver cutting-edge professional information and expert perspectives to the Asia-Pacific region provided by experts from the Asia-Pacific region and around the world.
The 1st 2023 WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue is organized on the occasion of the ICOMOS International Day for Monuments and Sites (18th April). The 2023 ICOMOS Day theme is "Cultural Heritage in Change" (Heritage Changes) in accordance with the ICOMOS Three-Year Scientific Plan (2021-2024) and the 2020 ICOMOS Resolution on a Human-Centered Perspective on Heritage.
On 21 April 2023 from 14.00-16:30 Beijing time (UTC+8), the WHITRAP Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue will discuss World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience – Disaster response and Emergency risk preparedness for heritage under climate change induced threats. In this round table Chinese and international scholars, experts and heritage managers will discuss how to respond to the threat of climate change and how to deal with the emergency climate risks, and share their experiences and reflections.
Responding to climate change cannot be done without an awareness of the value of heritage, which implies a cautious approach to managing risks and post-climate events interventions. Knowledge, research and monitoring are essential; developing adequate tools and assessing needs must be planned ahead. It implies looking at Cultural Heritage properties at a larger scale by considering territorial planning and coordinated governance at all levels and in every sector. Under the threat of climate change, what efforts have been made till now and what more should be made and strengthened to mitigate impacts? We are looking forward to an international exchange on cultural heritage conservation and cutting-edge thinking on the topic of "climate change", to identify together an organic combination of sustainable development and cultural heritage conservation.
The online Dialogue will be bilingual with simultaneous interpretation. Video recordings of the Dialogue and a brief synthesis will be published online on the WHIRTAP website.
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Agenda
2023 WHITRAP-Shanghai World Heritage Dialogue
World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience
Disaster response and Emergency risk preparedness for heritage under climate change induced threats
Friday 21 April 2023
Online 14:00-16:30 Beijing time (8:00-10:30 UTC)
14:00-14:15 Introduction
Marie-Noël TOURNOUX, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai
Introduction
Presentation of the participants
Group Photo
14:15-14:30 World Heritage, Climate Change and Resilience
Dr. MU Xingyu, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai.
14:30-15:12 Pecha Kucha (6 min/speaker)
14:30 - 14:36
YAN Haiming, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow and at China Academy of Cultural Heritage, Director of ICOMOS China Secretariat
14:37 - 14:43
Rohit JIGYASU, Project Manager on Urban Heritage, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, ICCROM
14:44 - 14:52
FANG Yuan, Director of Heritage Office, Huangshan Scenic Area Management Committee, China
14:53- 14:59
LEI Yaxian, Director of Pingyao County Cultural Heritage Institute, China
15:00 - 15:06
JIANG Huiyuan, Party Secretary and Director of the Cultural and Tourism Bureau of Lucheng District, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, China
15:07 - 15:13
Feng Jianrong, Director, Shaoxing City Cultural and Historical Research Museum, China
15:14 - 15:20
Adam MARKHAM, Acting Director for Climate and Energy, Union of Concerned Scientists.Member of ICOMOS Climate Action Working Group
15:20-16:20 Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Dr. MU Xingyu, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai
16:20-16:30 Wrap up
Marie-Noël TOURNOUX, Project Director, WHITRAP Shanghai
