Danube University Krems, Austria
Together with ENVIMAT 2019, the Center for Cultural Property Protection is organizing the Summer School on “Climate Change and Cultural Landscapes - Preventive Conservation of natural and cultural Resources along the River Danube" as part of the ProteCHt2save project.
Natural and man-made disasters pose a huge threat to our common natural and cultural heritage. Climate change is among these disasters and severely threatens the future wellbeing of our heritage assets. With each incident their cultural significance, historic, physical and artistic value is diminished to some degree or other. Such events also threaten the safety of occupants and users, and, inevitably, directly and adversely affect the livelihood of local communities.
The joint Summer School of the Center for Cultural Property Protection and ENVIMAT will contribute to the future wellbeing of our natural and cultural heritage by enabling the participants to rise to the challenges posed by climate change, to develop and adopt mitigation strategies and plans for the protection of our heritage property.
The one-week programme is based on state of the art research and EU funded projects on climate change and risk assessment for natural and cultural heritage. It aims at scientists, architects, engineers, archaeologists, site curators, cultural heritage managers, conservators, restorers, policy and decision makers, military personnel, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows alike. The faculty includes international experts on climate change, UNESCO World Heritage matters, terrace landscapes, flood modelling, and emergency planning for cultural heritage.
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ProteCHt2save
The project aims to improve the capacity of the public and private sectors to deal with the impacts of climate change and natural disasters on cultural heritage sites and cultural property.
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