RT Monograph
SR 00
A1 Day, Jon C.
A1 Heron, Scott F.
A1 Markham, Adam
A1 Downes, Jane
A1 Gibson, Julie
A1 Hyslop, Ewan
A1 Jones, Rebecca
A1 Lyall, Alice
T1 Climate Risk Assessment for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site
YR 2019
FD 2019-07-02
SP 88
K1 world heritage
K1 world heritage sites
K1 climate change
K1 risk assessment
K1 impact assessment
K1 case studies
K1 workshops
K1 methodology
K1 prehistoric sites
K1 neolithic
K1 Scotland
AB Climate change is the fastest growing global threat to World Heritage (WH). Many WH properties around the world are already experiencing signifcant negative impacts, damage and degradation. These and many others are vulnerable to climate impacts, including from rising temperatures, sea level rise, extreme precipitation, fooding, coastal erosion, drought, worsening wildfres, and human displacement, and will be at risk in the future. Recently observed trends are expected to continue and accelerate as climate change intensifes.  This report describes outcomes from a workshop in Orkney, Scotland (April 2019) to apply the Climate Vulnerability Index (CVI). The CVI is a new methodology developed to rapidly assess climate impacts – both to Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) and the associated ‘community’ (local, domestic and international) – for all types of WH properties (natural, cultural or mixed). In its frst application to a cultural WH property, the CVI process was undertaken for the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’ (HONO).
PB Historic Environment Scotland
PP Edinburgh
AV Published
LK http://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/2164/