Project Profile: AGREE
Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Francesca Giliberto, University of Leeds, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Partners: | Mesut Dinler, Polito, Italy Paloma Guzman, NIKU, Norway Martin Budd, Hull City Council, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Erlend Gjelsvik, Innlandet, Norway Rohit Jigyasu, ICCROM, Italy Joanne McCafferty, UK's Department for Culture, Media and Sport, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Ian Thomas, British Council, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Climate change, a multifaceted challenge interwoven with social, economic, and environmental dimensions, defies simplistic solutions. Despite global efforts, the pursuit of sustainability has fallen short, hindered by a narrow technical focus. This limited perspective has impeded the development of integrated, context-specific solutions. In response, AGREE champions transformative sustainability, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies and societal shifts. It explores the intricate link between cultural heritage governance, climate adaptation, and community resilience, rooted in responses to flooding in urban contexts. AGREE promotes the Historic Urban Landscape concept for integrative decision-making in climate adaptation, considering community resilience amidst environmental changes. An interactive Geographic Information System( GIS) platform will illuminate this interplay over time. An innovative AGREE's contribution is a decision-making model grounded in the HUL paradigm. This model juxtaposes current national and local policies enabling cultural heritage integration in climate adaptation with historical datasources revealing urban resilience lessons and changes in the built environment over time. AGREE employs transformative governance concepts to evaluate decision-makers' comprehension of these synergies and their perspectives. It advances transformative climate adaptation by uncovering potentials and barriers within heritage governance in case studies from the UK, Norway, and Italy. Beyond research, AGREE will shape policies with multi-scalar and cross sectoral governance, interpreting climate intricacies through cultural heritage. It will strengthen global, national, and local heritage-focused climate strategies through partnerships with the British Council, ICCROM, and the UK's Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and local stakeholders, such as Hull City Council (UK) and Innlandet Region (Norway). AGREE also engages the public, raising climate adaptation awareness and mobilizing collective action, benefiting governmental climate efforts. |
| Call Objective: | This Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes: 1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage; 2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation; 3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage. |
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When?
| Duration: | 59 Months |
| Call Date: | 26 April 2023 |
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