Regensburg Recommendation (2008)

Regensburg is a city in south-east Germany, situated at the confluence of the Danube, Naab and Regen rivers.

Preface: Regensburg Recommendation (2008) was adopted by the Organization of World Heritage Cities Northwest-European Regional Conference, Regensburg, Germany, 16-18 Sept..

The conference is discuss following topic about  “Earth, Wind, Water, Fire – Environmental Challenges to Urban World Heritage” , include:

  • emphasize the importance of safeguarding the world’s cultural heritage for present and future generations.
  • highlight that climate change and environmental challenges like storms, flooding, fire, earthquakes, weathering, erosion and landslides pose one of the most important threats to World Heritage cities, especially given the more frequent extreme weather situations, emphasize that the loss and deterioration of the built cultural heritage due to natural disasters and climate change affects all people,
  • recall that the safeguarding of the urban cultural heritage is the shared responsibility of citizens, local and regional authorities, national governments and international organisations,
  • take into account the following documents:
    • UNESCO’s Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of 1972 and the corresponding Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention of 2008,
    • the Council of Europe’s Recommendation No. R (93)9 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States on the Protection of the Architectural Heritage against Natural Disasters of 1993,
    • the International Committee of the Blue Shields Radenci Declaration on the Protection of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies and Exceptional Situations of 1998,
    • the Puebla Declaration regarding Prevention and Protection Measures for World Heritage Cities in Case of Disaster adopted by the Organization of World Heritage Cities General Assembly in Puebla, Mexico in 2001,
    • ICOMOS Kyoto Declaration on Protection of Cultural Properties, Historic Areas and their Settings from Loss in Disasters of 2005,
    • UNESCO’s Strategy for Reducing Risks from Disasters at World Heritage Properties of 2006,
    • New Delhi Resolution on Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage, adopted at the ICOMOS International Workshop on Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage of May 2007,
    • ICOMOS Recommendations from the Scientific Council Symposium Cultural Heritage and Global Climate Change of March 2008,
    • the publication of the World Heritage Centre “Policy Document on the Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties” of 2008, point out that in most cases the issue of natural hazards and urban heritage is not yet being approached in an interdisciplinary way. We recommend that the integrated research and interdisciplinary dialogue in geo-scientific as well as in cultural and social sciences is fostered in the sense that different knowledge is brought together,
  • underscore that traditional preservation techniques and local knowledge are invaluable in
    the protection of urban heritage sites from environmental challenges.
Category
Recommendation
Date

2008

Promulgation

The Organization of World Heritage Cities Northwest-European Regional Conference, Regensburg, Germany, 16-18 Sept.

Descriptions

  • It underscores that traditional preservation techniques and local knowledge are invaluable in the protection of urban heritage sites from environmental challenges, and points out that in most cases the issue of natural hazards and urban heritage is not yet being approached in an interdisciplinary way.
  • It recommends that the integrated research and interdisciplinary dialogue in geo-scientific as well as in cultural and social sciences is fostered in the sense that different knowledge is brought together.
  •  It emphasizes that the loss and deterioration of the built cultural heritage due to natural disasters and climate change affects all people.

Source

https://www.regensburg.de/sixcms/media.php/280/Regensburg%20Recommendation.pdf

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