Water Heritage: Classification and Degrees of Intervention

Abstract

Water heritage usually involves with water environment that often faces inevitable changes due to demands of the later generations. Although the idea of ‘degrees of intervention’ has long been developed in conservation practice of cultural heritage, the intervention on water heritage nowadays particularly becomes more complicated and controversial; it impacts not only on heritage structure but also on water environment. The study hence presents a new concept of degrees of intervention specifically for water heritage as a common language for bridging people from different fields, and discusses their classifications to provide a further understanding towards water heritage.