The predicted increases in climate change vulnerability of heritage sites are alarming. Yet, heritage management focuses on enabling a steady state of heritage sites to ensure the continuity of values embedded within those properties. In this paper, we use the concept of resilience to demonstrate how expanding the heritage paradigm from solely a preservation perspective to one that also embraces a transformation perspective can accommodate for loss as well as promote learning. We argue that adaptation as currently conceptualized in the heritage field is limited, as it is not economically or ecologically feasible for all heritage sites or properties. When heritage properties are severely impacted by climatic events, we suggest that some remain damaged to serve as a memory of that event and the inherent vulnerabilities embedded in places. Moreover, when confronted with projected climatic impacts that exceed a financially viable threshold or ecological reality, or when rights holders or associated communities deem persistent adaptation unacceptable, we argue for transformation. We claim that transformation enables a reorganization of values focused on the discovery of future values embedded within changing associations and benefits. Therefore, we recommend that the heritage field adopts an alternative heritage policy that enables transformative continuity through applications of persistent and autonomous or anticipatory adaptation. We conclude by suggesting a pathway for such change at the international level; specifically, we call for the World Heritage Convention to develop a new grouping of sites, World Heritage Sites in Climatic Transformation.

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遗产地的复原力和改造，以适应气候变化中的损失和学习

遗产地气候变化脆弱性的预测增加令人震惊。然而，遗产管理的重点是使遗产地处于稳定状态，以确保这些遗产中嵌入的价值的连续性。在本文中，我们使用复原力的概念来展示如何将遗产范式从单纯的保护视角扩展到一个也包含转型视角的遗产范式，可以容纳损失并促进学习。我们认为，目前在遗产领域概念化的适应是有限的，因为它在经济或生态上对所有遗产地或财产都不可行。当遗产财产受到气候事件的严重影响时，我们建议一些遗产仍然受到破坏，以作为对该事件和地方固有的脆弱性的记忆。而且，当面临超出经济可行阈值或生态现实的预计气候影响时，或者当权利人或相关社区认为持续适应不可接受时，我们主张转型。我们声称，转型能够重组价值观，重点是发现嵌入在不断变化的关联和利益中的未来价值观。因此，我们建议遗产领域采用替代性遗产政策，通过应用持续的、自主的或预期的适应来实现变革的连续性。最后，我们提出了在国际层面实现这种变化的途径；具体而言，我们呼吁《世界遗产公约》建立一个新的遗产地组，即气候变化中的世界遗产地。