Global Climate Change Impact on Built Heritage and Cultural Landscapes (NOAHS ARK)

The objectives of the project are:
To determine the meteorological parameters and changes most critical to the built cultural heritage.
To research, predict and describe the effects of climate change on Europe's built cultural heritage over the next 100 years.
To develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for historic buildings, sites, monuments and materials that are likely to be worst affected by climate change effects and associated disasters.
To disseminate information on climate change effects and the optimum adaptation strategies for adoption by Europe's cultural heritage managers through a conference and guidelines.
To provide electronic information sources and tools, including web-based Climate Risk Maps and a Vulnerability Atlas for heritage managers to assess the threats of climate change in order to visualize the built heritage and cultural landscape under future climate scenarios and model the effects of different adaptation strategies.
To advise policy-makers and legislators through the project's Policy Advisory Panel.

The output of NOAH'S ARK will underpin the following gaps existing in current EU policy: * inclusion of Cultural Heritage Protection as a prerequisite for implementing sustainable development
* inclusion of immovable Cultural Heritage in the indicators for integrated assessment
* favouring of dialogue between Air quality and Climate change Programmes, providing input to the Environment Action Programme within areas of Climate change and Quality of Life.

Reports and deliverables are available at request.