Mudanças climáticas, riscos ao patrimônio cultural e ambiental, políticas públicas e o papel das redes colaborativas: um olhar sobre o panorama brasileiro contemporâneo

Abstract

This paper aims at discussing how the recent Brazilian conjuncture, especially regarding public policies, from national to regional levels, has impacted the preservation of built cultural heritage, with a focus on risk management. In 2018, the National Museum was ravaged by a fire, with significant losses in its collection, which was formed over more than two hundred years. This is a regrettable example of the historical silencing risk that can arise from various large-scale incidents threatening Brazilian cultural assets. This situation arises, in some cases, from the absence, and in others, from inadequacy of heritage preservation public policies. It is necessary to bring to the debate about Latin-American experiences a look at the advances and setbacks in the legal and normative frameworks of heritage preservation in the Brazilian context.