Nature-based Solutions:Heritage Setting Cognition and Conservation Planning for Historic Cities in the Context of Climate Change
Climate change and its associated secondary disasters pose significant threats to the authenticity and integrity of cultural heritage.This paper reviews the evolution of international and Chinese responses to climate change within the cul-tural heritage domain.It highlights the need to enhance the theory and technology of conservation planning for historic cities in addressing major fundamental issues of climate change.The paper emphasizes the necessity to redefine the central concept of setting beyond conventional physical,economic,social and cultural dimensions,ad-vocating for improving conservation methodologies and enhancing climate resilience by adopting Nature-based Solutions(NbS).The paper consists of four parts.Firstly,it reviews international and Chinese scholarship on climate change in the field of cul-tural heritage and critically assesses the state of China's historic city conservation in response to climate change.Secondly,the paper introduces three new concepts--.ba-sic natural setting,human settlement setting,and historic landscape setting--to de-scribe the historic city setting in three distinct dimensions.This approach fosters a more comprehensive view of heritage setting by incorporating factors of sustainable development,such as climate change and ecological services,into the conservation planning and scientific research of historic cities.Thirdly,applying the approach to the case of Dunhuang,the research identifies and analyzes key factors in three di-mensions and explores the potential of utilizing NbS to enhance the climate resil-ience of historic cities.Lastly,the paper concludes that the development of conserva-tion planning techniques for historic cities should not only involve the understanding of heritage conservation principles but also embrace knowledge of ecosystem laws.
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