This document discusses the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage. It defines cultural heritage as including tangible heritage (historic buildings, sites, artifacts), intangible heritage (traditions, rituals, knowledge), and living heritage. Climate change threatens cultural heritage through physical impacts like flooding, erosion, and pest infestation, as well as cultural impacts such as loss of traditions and knowledge as communities are displaced. The document provides examples of communities and sites that have been damaged by climate events. It emphasizes the importance of conserving cultural heritage and traditional knowledge in the face of climate change.

1. Cultural Heritage and Climate Change Patcharawee Tunprawat Specialist in Cultural Heritage Management SEAMEO-SPAFA

3. Look Kuang, Lao Song Ethnic

4. Terracotta Buffalo, Dan Kwien

5. Wooden Man, India

6. Nang Kwak Amulet, Thailand

7. Roman Lamp

8. Wooden Warrior

9. Persian Manuscripts

10. Bayon Temple

14. Living Heritage

15. Living Heritage Herbal medicine doctor teaching students on the benefits of different herbs.

18. 4,500 year-old male skeleton at the Ban Natong prehistoric cave site in the North of Thailand

22. Flooding

23. Coastal Erosion

24. Salt Crystallization and Dissolution

25. Lichen

26. Termites/ Pest

28. Ban Hueng Klang Village, Sekong, Lao PDR ICCROM – SPAFA – Department of Heritage, Lao PDR

31. Communal House 50-60 years old Ban Hueng Klang River

42. One day after: Tropical Storm Ketsana, 2009

43. Documentation of the Village’s Settlement Pattern

44. What is left of the village.

45. Model of the Village Hall

48. Kaewwanna Living Indigo Museum

51. Cooking local dishes

53. Roleplaying and Puppet-making

54. Interconnectedness