Project Profile: RETRACE
Resiliences to climate risks: lessons from arctic and pacific communities
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Charlotte Heinzlef, UVSQ-CEARC, France |
| Partners: | Guangqing Chi, Penn State, United States of America Pascal Egli, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Martina Calovi, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Jeanne Gherardi Scao, University de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-enYvelines - LSCE, France Tomasz Opach, NTNU Trondheim, Norway JanKetil Red, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Sabrina Scherzer, NTNU Trondheim, Norway Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, UVSQ-CEARC, France Charlotte da Cunha, UVSQ-CEARC, France Damien Serre, UVSQ-CEARC, France Emilie Edelblutte, Resallience, France Abla Edjossan Sossou, Resallience, France Emmanuelle Thenot, Agence Opua, French Polynesia |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Resiliences to climate risks: lessons from arctic and pacific communities |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Since the 2000's and in a climate change context, 2.3 billion people have been impacted by natural disasters. Faced with complex issues, risk management has evolved to analyze risks in asystemic way, integrating there silience concept which is now an imperative for territories. However, few local actors manage to transform this concept into effective risk management strategies. Existing decision support tools are mainly focused on technical-functional approaches. Although based on rigorous and scientific approaches, they don't represent reality with veracity, subtlety, accuracy. Local communities are therefore struggling to deal with it. It's now essential to find an effective way to enhance the resiliences of local communities, in order to develop more inclusive approaches to implementing resilience strategies to climate risks. The consortium believes that some elements are pillars of local resiliences: experiences, intergenerational, traditional, vernacular and local knowledge, etc. Integrating these forms of local, intrinsic, and cultural resiliencies into decision-support tools is not only a challenge for understanding resilience in its diversity but also a guarantee for the appropriation and adoption of such tools. Two geographical areas are identified as most vulnerable to climate risks: the polar zones and the Pacific islands. Communities with strong cultural dimensions have been selected:the Marquesan (French Polynesia), the Semiand Kven (Norway) and the Ahtna (Alaska). RETRACE project aims to produce a decision-support system that enables there presentation, understanding and implementation of resilience strategies adapted to local issues. The methodology is based on a mixed-methods approach: qualitative data froma collaborative approach aimed at identifying resilience factors in local narratives, traditions, experiences, sensitivities, knowledge, etc.,and quantitative data derived from open source data. The aimis to develop long-term resilience strategies to climate risks in these communities and to ensure the reproducibility of the methodology. |
| 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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