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- Collection: 2017 Session 7: Underwater Cultural Heritage Politics, Laws, Ethics and Values
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The ethics behind climate change: Small Island Developing States in the Pacific as new underwater cultural heritage
Predictions forecast changes in climate that may affect underwater cultural heritage in the future. Warmer waters mean more chemical changes and the proliferation of teredo navalis. Ocean currents may cause disturbances to the layer of sediment…
Preservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Taiwan: Legislation and Challenges
The Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage was adopted in 2001 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The convention acknowledges the importance of underwater cultural heritage as…
The elaboration of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage
The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage was adopted in 2001. Like many such treaties, its text is the result of a compromise between opposing views. The negotiations leading to this instruments started in the…
A non-member State’s practice on the incorporation of the
UCH Convention: Taiwan’s experience
The United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) adopted the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2001 which entered into force in 2009. In order to preserve, protect and manage underwater…
A Blueprint for the Conservation of Underwater Cultural Heritage in Taiwan
Located on an important East Asian shipping route, the island of Taiwan is surrounded by waters containing a large number of underwater artefacts as a result of weather conditions, changes in the current, submerged reefs, war and other human factors.…
Risk and Protective Measures of Cultural Property in Cambodia
The risk to cultural property takes several forms such as risk from illegal activities, risk from neglect, and primarily the risk that cultural heritage is not well understood, but the key element of this presentation is protection.