8.2y What is the risk to heritage assets from climate change and how can these risks be mitigated?
Background
Our nation’s heritage is irreplaceable and a vital tool for economic growth, creating diverse jobs, specialist skills, and fostering real pride in place. We want to protect and enhance the best of our heritage to meet modern needs, keeping it alive through re-use and regeneration, providing communities with the infrastructure they need, and empowering them to take on the heritage assets they cherish. DCMS needs to better understand how these goals can be achieved most effectively, whilst considering local, financial and environmental impacts of the sector and interventions.
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Joint UK-Ireland Research Agenda for Climate Change and Heritage
We assert that a new area of research is needed to ensure the impacts of climate change and our responses to it are managed to preserve the significance of our irreplaceable heritage. This project seeks to establish and ...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England
Why might this be relevant?
This project specifically addresses the risk to heritage assets from climate change and proposes a research agenda to mitigate these risks.
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Multiscale Approaches And Scalability Within Climate Change-heritage Risk Assessments
This project proposes operationalisation (a method to provide measurable observation for abstract concepts) for transferable risk assessment and a value-based decision support tool. Supported by this approach, the overar...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
Why might this be relevant?
While the project focuses on risk assessment and decision support tools for climate change impacts on heritage, it does not directly address mitigation strategies.
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Values-based Climate Change Risk Assessment: Piloting the Climate Vulnerability Index for Cultural Heritage in Africa [Highlight Notice]
Climate change poses an existential threat to all humanity. Understanding this change and adapting to it has become the greatest challenge of our time. From rising sea-levels, more extreme weather events and aridificatio...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on piloting a climate vulnerability index for cultural heritage in Africa, which contributes to understanding vulnerability but does not directly address mitigation strategies.