Project Profile: CoastalTALES
Telling Adaptations; Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Louise Steel, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| Partners: | Steven Beschloss, ASU, United States of America Poul Holm, TCD, Ireland Luci Attala, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland John Fitzhugh, ASU, United States of America Carwyn Graves, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Steven Hartman, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Hollis Miller, ASU, United States of America Cordula Scherer, TCD, Ireland Gareth David Thomas, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Simon Wright, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Tracey Gilbert Falconer, UWTSD, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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What?
| Full Project Title: | Telling Adaptations; Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience |
| Full Call Title: | CCH2023: CCH2023- Climate and Cultural Heritage |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | Coastal TALES asks: How can stories of past practices help people (re)discover more sustainable ways of living in their rapidly changing coastal environments? Our goal is to show how heritage stories can generate tangible local action that diverse communities can draw on to adapt to a changing climate. We use a transdisciplinary approach, building on the knowledge and agency of local communities in dialogue with academic expertise across the spectrum of humanities and sciences. Facing a world undergoing significant social and ecological transformation, many people ask, "what can I do?". Individual actions often feel insufficient, with little perceptible effect. CoastalTALES attends to this growing social need by examining how stories can generate tangible action and offer creative inspiration to local communities and regional environmental stakeholders seeking to adapt sustainably. CoastalTALES collaborates with societal partners to understand how heritage stories can drive action in education, policy and nature-based innovation. We are focusing on three coastal areas (Kodiak Island, Alaska, Dublin Bay in Ireland and southwest Wales) which bring together examples of environmental change affecting distinct communities with a shared sense of urgency. The Kodiak study highlights commercialised fishing in an Indigenous context, encouraging youth to draw on ancestral knowledge as a means to forge environmentally sustainable communities and life ways. In Ireland oral histories and historical maps help identify practices of managing rising waters with hard and soft coastal defence structures. In Wales revival of local coastal heritage foods is foregrounded, with an emphasis on learning how heritage stories can drive sustainable adaptation. CoastalTALES demonstrates the value of reviving heritage stories in three distinct social contexts, each of which uniquely illustrates how listening to voices from the past and empowering voices of the present can create a legacy for future generations and offer a source of resilience in the face of climate stress. |
| 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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