Project Profile: Pasture Adaptation
Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes : Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Thomas Mote, UGA, United States of America |
| Partners: | Dominique Barjolle, UNIL, Switzerland Sebastian Eiter, NIBIO, Norway Pablo Manzano, BC3, Spain Anne Sourdril, CNRS, France Brian Burke, ASU, United States of America Rebecca McCulley, University of Kentucky Research Foundation, United States of America Aaron Thompson, University of Georgia Research Foundation, United States of America Jennifer Thompson, University of Georgia Research Foundation, United States of America Sechindra Vallury, University of Georgia Research Foundation, United States of America Meredith Welch-Devine, University of Georgia Research Foundation, United States of America Coralie Artano, CSPS, France Francesca Pasetti Bombardella, la Mesta, Spain |
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| Project Objective: | Cultural landscapes provide essential ecological and socio cultural services and contain insights needed to combat climate change, but they are vulnerable to climate change and other stressors. By examining the cultural landscapes of transhumant pastoralism in France, Norway, and Spain, we will detail climate and other threats to this intangible cultural heritage (ICH), the characteristics and factors that create adaptive capacity in these systems, and methods for sustaining ICH through community action and policy. The research supports three goals established with societal partners: 1. Develop a toolkit that helps communities and decision-makers assess the vulnerability and resilience of cultural landscapes. 2. Develop communication resources for the public and policymakers illustrating why threatened cultural heritage matters and how cultural heritage can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. 3. Contribute to scientific literature on the vulnerability and resilience of cultural landscapes and culturally informed strategies for climate mitigation and adaptation. Our team builds on multiple collaborations and deep expertise? The most significant involves French, Spanish, and U.S. partners modeling future changes in the FrenchBasque pastoral system. The Basque Centre for Climate Change specializes in Spanish transhumant pastoralism and ecological modeling; Swiss partners designed tools for measuring livelihood resilience, and partners in Norway have expertise in agricultural landscape change, cultural heritage, and public participation. Societal partners (Syndicate of Souleand Concejo dela Mesta) will contribute to project management and synthesis, and farmers are fully engaged in collecting and analyzing data. In addition to adaptation and management tools, the project supports guides for professional journalists and farmer made films to spread awareness and increase public support for cultural heritage protection? Each team ensures that their respective portion falls within the guidelines of their funding annex. |
| 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: | 36 months |
| Call Date: | 26 April 2023 |
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