Publicomos

Réf.

43661

Type

technical report

Titre

Heritage at risk: ICOMOS world report 2000 on monuments and sites in danger

Langues

Spanish / English / French

Éditeurs

Bumbaru, Dinu / Burke, Sheridan / Petzet, Michael / Truscott, Marilyn C. / Ziesemer, John

Auteurs institutionnels

ICOMOS

Lieu de publication

Munich

Pays de publication

Germany

Maison d'édition

K. G. Saur

Date

2000

Pages

240

Collection

Heritage at Risk

ISBN

3-598-24240-9

Mots-clés

international inventories / regional inventories / national inventories / natural disasters / destruction of cultural heritage / risk management / documentation / sacred places / historic houses / manor houses / palaces / urban areas / vernacular architecture / industrial heritage / modern architecture / cultural landscapes / archaeological sites / intangible heritage / spirit of place / movable cultural property / physical-chemical factors / biological factors / economic aspects / social aspects / conservation measures / legal protection / architectural heritage / historic gardens / rock art / stained glass / photographs / Southern Africa / East Asia / South East Asia / Arab States / man-made deterioration / historic villages / heritage at risk / earth architecture / conservation of historic monuments / conservation of historic sites / management / monitoring / causes of deterioration / effects of deterioration / prevention of deterioration / architectural ensembles / collections / historic urban landscapes / urban settlements / legislation / inventories / historic towns

Pays mentionnés

Afghanistan / Albania / Andorra / Argentina / Australia / Austria / Bolivia / Bosnia and Herzegovina / Brazil / Bulgaria / Cambodia / Canada / China / Croatia / Cuba / Cyprus / Czechia / Denmark / Egypt / Finland / France / Germany / Guatemala / Hungary / Iceland / India / Israel / Italy / Jordan / Kenya / Lebanon / Luxembourg / Mexico / Morocco / Myanmar / Nepal / Netherlands / New Zealand / Nicaragua / Norway / Oman / Pakistan / Panama / Poland / Romania / Russian Federation / Singapore / Slovakia / Slovenia / South Africa / Sweden / Switzerland / Syrian Arab Republic / Thailand / Türkiye / United Kingdom / United States / Venezuela / Yemen / Yugoslavia

Résumé en anglais

With its first World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger 1COMOS hopes not only to gain the moral support of the world public in the battle against all kinds of threats, but also to achieve practical results in co-operation with all forces that are interested in preservation/conservation of the cultural heritage. As a non-governmental organisation, ICOMOS can identify monuments in danger from a strictly preservation-based perspective without political considerations, can bluntly address the absolutely desperate situation facing the historic heritage in many countries of the world, and can detect dangerous trends at an early stage. The types of threats that show up in the reports that are presented here are very diverse. On the one hand mankind's built historic heritage has always been threatened by natural disasters: by the consequences of earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, floods and fires, as well as by the effects of natural weathering and attack by insects or plants. On the other hand wars are still leading to tremendous losses; consider for example the aftermath of the wars, combined with ethnic confrontations and campaigns against culture in the region of former Yugoslavia. But man-made disasters also include the consequences of world-wide pollution of our air, water and land such as the pollution-linked destruction of monuments of metal and stone, which in some cases have deteriorated faster in the last decades than they had in the previous centuries. The current threats to our historic heritage are incomparable to those of earlier times now that we live in a world that has been undergoing faster and faster change since the last decades of the 20th century. This rapid development, taking place under the pressures of world population growth and progressive industrialisation. leads to ever-greater consumption of land — destroying not only archaeological evidence under the earth but entire historic cultural landscapes — and 10 faster and faster cycles of demolition and new construction with their concomitant burden on the environment. [from the introduction by Michael Petzet]

URL

https://www.icomos.de/admin/ckeditor/plugins/alphamanager/uploads/pdf/HatR2000.pdf

Document joint

HR_2000.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)