• Publicado el Viernes 27 de Enero de 2012
• Por Museo Virtual Submarino

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/underwater-cultural-heritage/2001-convention/10th-anniversary/

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001), UNESCO had developed in cooperation with the Catholic University of Leuven a scientific colloquium at the Royal Library of Belgium (4 Boulevard de l'Empereur, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium) from 13 to 14 December 2011. The colloquium had gather reputed international scholars, representatives from archaeological services and enterprises concerned for a high-level scientific exchange on the imminent factors impacting underwater cultural heritage. They had explore ways of developing positive collaboration in the mitigation of activities adversely affecting this heritage (preliminary programme enclosed). The topics of the sessions had been underwater cultural heritage and commercial exploitation, commercial archaeological interventions and international cooperation,trawling and fishing, construction works, seabed development, resource extraction and renewable energy development,environmental impact, climate change and ocean pollution, tourism, anddevelopment led archaeology.The colloquium is open to all interested professionals. It had been immediately followed by a regional meeting for Europe in the same venue on 15 December 2011, which was of limited access. The working languages of the meeting had been English and French, with simultaneous interpretation in both languages.