Editorial: extreme heritage (part 2)

This is the second albeit belated issue of Historic Environment devoted to selected papers based on those presented at the conference eXtreme heritage: managing heritage in the face of climatic extremes, natural disasters and military conflicts in tropical, desert, polar and off-world landscapes which was held in Cairns, Australia in 2007. The focus of the papers in this volume range across the themes of the conference and the geographical distribution of the case studies reported spread across Australia, south-east Asia and the Pacific. Overall there is a focus on the Asia/Pacific tropical region with the majority of papers exploring issues related to heritage places in tropical environments