ABSTRACT
Climate change may negatively impact the underwater cultural heritage, since oceans will experience transformations. This study examines these specific climate changes oceans will most likely suffer and how they will probably affect tangible cultural heritage, analysing how the changes will affect every possible material that can be found in an underwater archaeological site. It also explores cases of heritage that are already suffering the consequences examining the consequences of two future scenarios: how climate change may disturb underwater cultural heritage, and how land cultural heritage may change its label and subsequently become underwater cultural heritage. Lastly, the chapter proposes a new partnership between natural/cultural resources and the qualification of cultural heritage as a natural resource for its preservation, establishing the same common measures for both heritage against climate change.
