Improving Integration of Archaeology into the Work of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change): A Status Report

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Modern anthropogenic climate change has its roots in the Industrial Revolution and has developed further through social and economic processes that have grown into world dependence on fossil fuels. Archaeology has much to say about these developments and provides important cultural and natural baseline information from which the scope and scales of change can be better understood. However, to date, information from and attention to the impacts of climate change on archaeology and heritage broadly has had only minimal representation in reports of the IPCC. In 2017, the World Heritage Committee asked the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) to improve these connections. This paper presents a status report on efforts to develop an IPCC expert meeting on heritage, plan for an IPCC special report on heritage and climate change, and engage the archaeological field in developing new and needed approaches to research and publication.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23866