This document discusses the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage. It notes that climate change threatens cultural heritage through physical impacts like flooding, erosion, melting permafrost, and indirect impacts like changes in moisture, vegetation, salt crystallization and pest/biological effects. Specific examples are given of heritage sites in Southeast Asia that have been damaged by storms and flooding. The document emphasizes that climate change is causing migration of traditional communities and loss of traditional practices, as well as loss of cultural memory. Adaptation is also leading to changes in traditional ways of life. Conservation efforts must now consider continuity of knowledge and communities, not just objects.

1. Cultural Heritage and Climate Change PatcharaweeTunprawat Specialist in Cultural Heritage Management SEAMEO-SPAFA

2. Activity 1 Look at the museum object given to your group and discuss the following points: What is it? How is it important? How was it made? What and who are needed to create it?

3. Look Kuang, Lao Song Ethnic

4. Terracotta Buffalo, Dan Kwien

5. Wooden Man, India

6. Nang Kwak Amulet, Thailand

7. Roman Lamp

8. Wooden Warrior

9. Persian Manuscripts

10. Bayon Temple

11. Cultural Heritage Components of Cultural Heritage: Materials / Cultural Expressions Knowledge Values Communities

12. Cultural Heritage Tangible Heritage Monuments, historic buildings, archaeological sites, collections, archives

13. Cultural Heritage Intangible Heritage Traditional knowledge, wisdom, ways of life, rituals, cultural practices, performances

14. Living Heritage

15. Living Heritage Herbal medicine doctor teaching students on the benefits of different herbs.

16. Balanced Conditions Suitable and Stable Climate e.g. temperature, moisture, UV rays Traditional Knowledge Traditional Community Traditional Materials Happy Heritage Suitable soil chemistry and biological components

17. Imbalanced Conditions Sad Heritage

18. 4,500 year-old male skeleton at the Ban Natong prehistoric cave site in the North of Thailand

19. Climate Change is directly affecting the world’s cultural heritage. Climate Change is acknowledged by world organizations dealing with heritage management e.g. UNESCO, ICOMOS, Getty Conservation Institute, and ICCROM as one of the most real threats that heritage is facing.

20. SPAFA published a journal on Impact of the Cyclone Nargis on Cultural Heritage Monuments in Myanmar.

21. Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage Physical Impact Direct Impact: Storm, flooding, erosion of coastal areas, melting permafrost, landslides, extreme precipitations, desertification Indirect Impact: Moisture, vegetation, salt crystallization, pest, biological effects, scarcity of traditional materials

22. Flooding

23. Coastal Erosion

24. Salt Crystallization and Dissolution

25. Lichen

26. Termites/ Pest

27. 100 places to remember www.100places.com

28. Ban HuengKlang Village, Sekong, Lao PDRICCROM – SPAFA – Department of Heritage, Lao PDR

42. One day after: Tropical Storm Ketsana, 2009

43. Documentation of the Village’s Settlement Pattern

44. What is left of the village.

45. Model of the Village Hall

46. Cultural Impact Migration of traditional communities Adaptation causing loss of traditional practices and changing ways of life Change of environment (e.g. climate, vegetation, food etc.) Loss of Cultural Memory

47. For the first time in history, climate change makes conservators rethink conservation. It’s not possible to conserve everything and to conserve forever. Continuity of knowledge and traditional communities

48. Kaewwanna Living Indigo Museum

50. Learning about Moh Hom, a traditional way of life

51. Cooking local dishes

52. เที่ยวบ้านเก่า เข้าใจภูมิปัญญา Visiting old houses

53. Roleplaying and Puppet-making

54. Interconnectedness