Project Profile: SEA-CCHange
Socio-Ecological Archiving: Coastal Communities’ Heritage in times of climate change
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Annisa Triyanti, UU, Netherlands |
| Partners: | Cathy Daly, CC, Ireland Clare Fitzsimmons, NU, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Philip Minderhoud, WU-DES, Netherlands Iris Moeller, TCD, Ireland Kim Cohen, UU, Netherlands Sarah Coulthard, NU, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Jana Cox, UU, Netherlands Aneta Nerguti, CC, Ireland Jaap H. Nienhuis, UU, Netherlands Diana Vela Almeida, UU, Netherlands Dedi Adhuri, BRIN, Indonesia Karin Dubsky, CW, Ireland Harm Jan Pierik, RCE, Netherlands Abbie Yunita, UU, Netherlands |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Socio-Ecological Archiving: Coastal Communities’ Heritage in times of climate change |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Climate change poses a serious threat to cultural heritage, including traditional knowledge, and practices that define our identity and history. International climate agendas often neglect the cultural heritage of local communities, in particular coastal communities who are facing high climate risk. SEA-CCHange, a three-year research program, aims to explore how coastal communities perceive and adapt to climate change in the context of their cultural heritage and how this can inform climate mitigation and adaptation. In the climate and cultural heritage discussion, diverse narratives and local community heritage are often overlooked, leading to underrepresentation and vulnerable communities being left out of climate policy. SEA-CCHange seeks to change this by examining three critical aspects: 1. Assessing the physical risks posed by climate change to cultural heritage, contrasting these risks with how communities perceive them. 2. Investigating how heritage practices adapt during changing times through discussions and interviews; exploring the tensions and unexpected outcomes that emerge from multiple perspectives. 3. Documenting (in an open access archive) how heritage is lived and practiced during climate change and seeking collaborative solutions that consider what's been lost, changed, valued, and what can be recovered. SEA-CCHange focuses on six international cases, including coastal communities in Ireland, UK, the Netherlands, Indonesia, and the Caribbean. The consortium partners span a wide range of inter- and transdisciplinary topics and societal partners that span local government, research policy, citizen science, fisheries and regional cultural heritage, who will collaborate to forma socio-ecological archive on/for the coastal community experience and promote impact and outreach to have their voices heard. By bridging cultural heritage and climate change research, SEA-CCHange aims to safeguard heritage, embrace diverse narratives, and contribute to informed policy decisions in the face of climate change |
| 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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