Adapting Northern cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards through community engagement and informed conservation planning (ADAPT NORTHERN HERITAGE)

Description:

Adapt Northern Heritage is a project supporting communities and local authorities to adapt northern cultural heritage to the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards through community engagement and informed conservation planning.

The project has three principal objectives:

1. Assessment tool and adaptation guidance: develop procedures for risk and vulnerability assessments and sustainable adaptation planning of historic places and make the procedures accessible through online software
2. Demonstration case studies: produce adaptation action plans to demonstrate how the environmental impacts of climate change and associated natural hazards can be integrated into conservation planning
3. Community network: create a network for stakeholders concerned with the conservation of northern cultural heritage in the context of a changing climate to contribute, engage, learn and network

Nine historic places from across northern Europe are used  as demonstration sites in Adapt Northern Heritage. They are located in Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Scotland.

Project information

Lead

Historic Environment Scotland

Partners

Riksantikvaren, Directorate for cultural heritage, Norway

Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Norway

Cultural Heritage Agency of Iceland, Iceland

Source of funding

Interreg VB