Heritage Under Pressure – Threats and Solutions

Edward James is Historic Places Advisor at Historic England Dr Michael Nevell is Head of Archaeology at the Centre for Applied Archaeology and a senior lecturer in archaeology at the University of Salford.

Preface

List of contributors

Part 1 Heritage Under Pressure

1 Introduction: Profession, discourse and agency

Michael Dawson

Part 2 Agency and Global Reach

2 Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and the global profession

Peter Hinton

3 The work of the Cultural Protection Fund

Amy Eastwood and Joanne Slack

4 Shifting sands: Scientific cooperation, archaeology and cultural heritage on mining projects in central and northern Mauritania

Leonora O’Brien

Part 3 Threats and Solutions

5 Endangered archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa

Robert Bewley

6 A tool and methodology for rapid assessment and monitoring of heritage places in a disaster and post-disaster context: Syria as a case study

Azadeh Vafadari, Graham Philip and Richard Jennings

7 Preparing for disaster: The rapid recording of our threatened monuments

Jamie Quartermaine

8 Curious Travellers: Repurposing imagery to manage and interpret threatened monuments, sites and landscapes

Andrew S. Wilson, Vince Gaffney, Chris Gaffney, Eugene Ch’ng, Richard Bates, Gareth Sears, Tom Sparrow, Andrew Murgatroyd, Edward Faber and Robin A.E. Coningham

9 Resilience within the rubble: Post-disaster archaeological responses to Nepal’s 2015 Gorkha earthquake

Robin Coningham, Kosh Prasad Acharya, Christopher Davis, Ram Bahadur Kunwar, Ian Simpson, Anie Joshi and Kai Weise

Part 4 Built Heritage in Conflict

10 Introduction

Michael Nevell and Edward James

11 Protecting cultural property during armed conflict: An international perspective

Peter Stone

12 Peace negotiations in progress in Cyprus and prospects for protecting the abandoned built heritage in the Buffer Zone

Maria Yioutani-Iacovides

13 The arts in historic preservation: The southern Caucasus

Peter Nasmyth

14 Conserving the past, protecting the peace

Liam McQuillan

15 Responses to the destruction of cultural property during conflict: The case of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Helen Walasek

16 Perspectives on cultural heritage loss and reconstruction 20 years after the end of conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Richard Carlton and Smajo Bešo

17 Dresden: Memory, meaning, significance and authenticity – issues of heritage value in the Dresden Elbe Valley

Ariane Buschmann

Part 5 Climate Change

18 Adapting heritage policy for a changing climate: Reflections from Ireland

Cathy Daly

19 STORM: Managing cultural heritage sites in the face of environmental and climate change

Michael Nevell, Rob Williamson and Rosemarie DeWit