ICOMOS – Nederland Bestuurswisseling – 3 juli

Op 3 juli vond de Algemene Ledenvergadering van ICOMOS Nederland plaats in Doorn, waar tevens een neuw bestuur is gekozen. Jurn Buisman is voorgedragen voor de vacante functie van secretaris en benoemd. ICOMOS / International Council for Monuments and Sites is het gremium onder UNESCO dat onder meer adviseert over de plaatsing op de Werelderfgoedlijst, zoals bijv. de Amsterdamse Grachtengordel. De maandelijkse ICOMOS bijeenkomsten vinden al enige jaren in Museum Geelvinck plaats.

 

World Water Forum in Seoul, 14 – 17 april 2015

ICOMOS Nederland heeft tijdens het internationale Water Forum in Seoul, het grootste evenement op watergebied ter wereld, een belangrijke bijdrage geleverd met een presentatie door Diederik Six (voorzitter ICOMOS Nederland) van een korte, indringende documentaire film en Henk van Schaik, mede-samensteller van de publicatie ‘Water & Heritage’.

Film en boek onderstrepen het belang van erfgoed en overgeleverde kennis bij watermanagement. Beide zijn voortgevloeid uit de eerdere iin 2013 door ICOMOS Nederland georganiseerde conferentie ‘Protecting Delta’s – Heritage Helps’.

 

Trailer van ‘Protecting deltas, Heritage helps’, vertoond tijdens het World Water Forum in Seoul, april 2015

 

‘Water & Heritage’

‘Water & Heritage’ samengesteld door Willem Willems (helaas in 2014 overleden) en Henk van Schaik, bevat een serie artikelen van de hand van experts vanuit de hele wereld en geeft een breed scala aan ervaringen en inzichten hoe in het verleden en tegenwoordig met water is en wordt omgegaan, op een wijze die mens en natuur ten goede komt. Hier blijkt overgeleverde kennis van vaak eeuwen her, de wetenschap van nu op cruciale punten te ondersteunen: Heritage Helps.

 

Abstract van Water & Heritage, uitgave van Sidestone Press Academics, 2015, ISBN: 9789088902789
Willem J.H. Willems & Henk P.J. van Schaik, ed.

 

‘Water is vital for life, and its availability has been a concern for mankind throughout the ages. Its presence has always been ascertained in a variety of ways and the development of human society everywhere is connected with various forms of water management. Man also needed to manage water to find protection from its dangers and the need for that is increasing. In the coming decades, the impact of climate change is expected to intensify floods and droughts, affect groundwater resources, raise sea levels, increase pollution and enhance the frequency and magnitude of disasters. Societies around the world are challenged to adapt to these threats to ensure water security, economic prosperity and environmental and cultural sustainability.

This book deals with the heritage of water management and the use that was made of water, as well as the impact of water management on heritage. An example of the former may be an ancient irrigation system in the Philippines or in the Middle East that still functions today, while the latter may reflect the importance of maintaining groundwater levels for the preservation of organic remains on archaeological sites or of wooden piles underneath standing buildings. In either case the papers in this book reflect the dynamic nature of water, and hence the equally dynamic relation between water management and heritage.

This publication follows up on a Heritage and Water conference in Amsterdam, the first of its kind. Its main purpose is to credibly present the importance and value of heritage and historical experience for water and sustainable development, and vice versa, present the importance of water management for the protection of heritage. It presents evolving insights and concepts about Water and about Heritage from a variety of disciplines, policy and public perspectives illustrated with cases studies and aims to connect decision makers with experts such as engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, ecologist and landscape architects.’

This book was initiated by ICOMOS Netherlands as a follow up to its 2013 international conference ‘Protecting delta’s, heritage helps’.

 

Contents

Foreword
Irina Bokova (Director-General of UNESCO)

Preface
Jhr. Ir. Diederik Six (president ICOMOS Netherlands) and Drs. Erik Luijendijk (board member ICOMOS Netherlands)

Culture is the fourth pillar of sustainable development
Olivier Blond

Water and Heritage: conventions and connections
Henk P.J. van Schaik, Michael van der Valk and Willem Willems

A sustainable technogy for increasing water availability Evolution of rainwater harvesting in urban areas through the millennia. 
Benoît Haut, Xiao Yun Zheng, Larry Mays, Mooyoung Han, Cees Passchier, and Andreas N. Angelakis

Ancient Water Wisdom. Traditional water systems in India
Vasudha Pangare and Ganesh Pangare

Water and heritage in Angkor, Cambodia. The monuments, the ancient hydraulic network and their recent rehabilitation
Peou Hang

Water and World heritage
Anne Lemaistre

Beautiful tropical islands in the Caribbean Sea. Human responses to floods and droughts and the indigenous archaeological heritage of the Caribbean
Corinne L. Hofman and Menno L.P. Hoogland

Pacific Islands on the brink of submergence. Rising seas in an age of climate changes
John A. Peterson

Sand and water – and their effect on the pyramids of Meroe in the Sudan
Alexandra Riedel

Preserving New York City’s waterfront industrial and maritime heritage through resilient and sustainable development. New York City’s coastal development
Kate Daly

Heritage values of water and sea defense in Recife. Challenges for a local governmental approach
Evelyne Labanca Corrêa de Araújo

Hazard vulnerability and management of cultural heritage in the context of water-related hazards in the Republic of Korea
Hae Un Rii, Hyo Hyun Sung and Jisoo Kim

Flood Protection for Historic Sites – Integrating Heritage Conservation and Flood Control Concepts. Experiences in Germany
Heiko Lieske, Erika Schmidt and Thomas Will

‘Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get’. Managing the potential effects of oceanic climate change on underwater cultural heritage
Mark Dunkley

Water as an Agent of Creation and Destruction at Petra
Douglas C. Comer

Tsunami and heritage after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
Katsuyuki Okamura

Reinforcing the link between Water and Heritage in order to build Disaster Resilient Societies
Rohit Jigyasu

Between pragmatism and cultural context. Continuity and change in Ifugao wet-rice agriculture
Stephen Acabado and Marlon Martin

Water Services Heritage and Institutional Diversity
T.S. Katko, P.S. Juuti, P.E. Pietilä and R.P. Rajala

The framework of skills and knowledge shared in long-enduring organizations in the improvement of irrigation efficiency in Japan
Mikiko Sugiura, Yohei Sato and Shinsuke Ota

The Deltaworks: heritage and new space for a changing world
Marinke Steenhuis

Beyond site protection. Embedding natural heritage into sustainable landscapes
Kenneth Irvine

The Santa Cruz River. Four Millennia of Water Heritage and Security in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Rafael de Grenade and Robert G. Varady

Cultural and touristic strategies for preservation and enhancement of Venice and its lagoon
Francesco Calzolaio

The Tennessee Valley Authority. How the Development of the Tennessee River Influenced Archaeology in the Southeastern United States
Erin Pritchard, Michaelyn Harle and Pat Bernard Ezzell

Development of the WWC world water heritage systems (WHS) program
Avinash Chand Tyagi and Kazumi Yamaoka

 

About the editors:

Willem J.H. Willems (1950-2014) was professor of archaeological heritage resource at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Previously he was Dean of the Faculty, after a career at the State Antiquities Service where he became director and Chief Archaeologist of the Netherlands.
Henk van Schaik is since 2012 lead for Water of the UPEACE The Hague Centre, was co-organiser of the international ICOMOS conference in 2013 “Protecting Deltas, heritage helps’. He was the main author of the Amsterdam statement that concluded the ICOMOS conference in September 2013.