期刊
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
卷 55, 期 -, 页码 97-104出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.02.001
关键词
World Heritage Sites; Big data; Remote sensing; Armed conflicts; Arab countries; Middle East; GDELT; Night lights; Flickr
资金
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (GEED)
- U.S. National Science Foundation [CAREER IIS-1253549]
World Heritage sites provide a key mechanism for protecting areas of universal importance. However, fifty-four UNESCO sites are currently listed as In Danger, with 40% of these located in the Middle East. Since 2010 alone, thirty new sites were identified as under risk globally. We combined big-data and remote sensing to examine whether they can effectively be used to identify danger to World Heritage in near real-time. We found that armed-conflicts substantially threaten both natural- and cultural-heritage listed sites. Other major risks include poor management and development (globally), poaching (Africa mostly) and deforestation (tropics), yet conflict is the most prominent threat. We show that news-mining of big-data on conflicts and remote sensing of nightslights enabled us to identify conflict afflicted areas in near real-time. These findings provide a crucial avenue for developing a global transparent early-warning system before irreversible damage to world heritage takes place.
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