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ItemPGAV Factsheet: Integrating climate change into disaster preparedness planning(University of Melbourne, 2021)This Fact Sheet will assist galleries to plan for and respond to the impacts of climate change. It provides a 5 step approach to prepare for the increased likelihood of disasters that have not previously posed a serious threat, and a useful table to assist galleries to mitigate the impacts of climate change on their operations and collections.
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ItemCONSERVATION AS SHARED RESPONSIBILITY: SOCIAL EQUITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND THE PUBLIC GOOD(UNIV PENNSYLVANIA PRESS, 2021-03-01)Social inequity presents a risk to cultural heritage, but conservation also contributes to social equity and justice goals. With a focus on groups in Australia whose access to conservation, and thus to their rights to their heritage, is disrupted by social inequities, this paper argues that conservation, as a normative discipline premised on the idea of a future in which heritage is accessible and open to interpretation, use and enjoyment, must, like social equity and justice movements, work to create more equitable socio-political futures. Theorizing that conservation is a public good, and focused through case studies that examine Aboriginal Art Centres, conservation education and regional and remote cultural collections, a case is established for the need to rebalance conservation in areas which have experienced past structural injustice. Utilizing the ethical and political philosophy of Iris Marion Young and Christine Sypnowich, critical evaluations of the profession that attempt to redefine conservation discourses are proposed to demonstrate the obligation of conservation to account for principles of social equity and justice. Overall, the paper reflects on the philosophical, ethical and societal implications for the profession of understanding conservation as a process characterized by change.