CHICC · Culture, Heritage and Identities: Impacts of Climate Change in North West Europe
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-02-01 → 2023-09-21
- EU contribution
- €207,312
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Culture, Heritage and Identities: Impacts of Climate Change in North West Europe
CHICC aimed to understand the impact of climate-change driven heritage loss on local communities. The project emerged from the understanding that, while widespread impacts of climate change are acknowledged in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action, the full scale of the impacts on heritage and associated communities was unknown. The project focused on three sites that were impacted and would continue to be impacted by climate change. Each site had an associated community, whose lives and livelihoods could be impacted if their local heritage site were to be lost or damaged beyond recognition. The project achieved its overall aim of analysing the impacts of anthropogenic climate change on heritage, local communities and cultural identities. The project did so by achieving its objectives. These were, as outlined in the DoA, to use Citizen Science to co-create a deepmap resource containing multidisciplinary data related to heritage sites damaged and at risk of loss by anthropogenic climate change. This was mainly carried out through online workshops, seminars and lectures due to the Covid 19 restrictions and lockdowns in place during the first year of the project. The main achievement of the project was the results from the workshops and questionnaires. This was the evidence that better articulation of the climate-heritage relationship can facilitate climate action and people felt compelled to engage with climate action when faced with the information that climate change would impact local heritage monuments. Although there has long been a purported link between heritage and climate change, the role of the former in positively contributing to the latter was not fully understood. The results from the project directly contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Goal 13: Climate Action.
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Project objective
CHICC aims to understand the impact of climate-change driven heritage loss on local communities. The widespread impacts of climate change are acknowledged in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action; however, the full scale of the impacts on heritage and associated communities is currently unknown but knowable. Three damaged or lost heritage sites will be explored through CHICC: Mårup, Denmark; Dunbeag, Ireland; Brora, Scotland. Each has been altered by climate change, creating an impact on the lives and livelihoods of local communities, their sense of place and belonging, their perception of climate change; overall, impacting their cultural identities. As North-West Europe is expected to experience greater and more widespread heritage loss due to climate change, CHICC will use these sites to understand the complexity of loss, and the impact on communities and their cultural identities.Through adopting a Citizen Science approach, CHICC will include the often-omitted voice of local communities to understand how climate change impacts them, which may include an upsurge in engagement with climate change mitigation, greater energy for preservation or forgetting. Communities will be active participants within the research, contributing their views, ideas and resources. Through co-creation, CHICC will launch an online, deepmap for three damaged or lost heritage sites. The deepmap will collate and democratise multidisciplinary, primary and secondary data to interrogate the relationship between climate change, heritage and culture. This open-access resource will be created in-line with a Digital Preservation Strategy to ensure reuse of data for future researchers and varied stakeholder groups. The methodology developed includes co-creation and Citizen Science, underpinned by well-integrated interdisciplinarity, thus allows for impact and relevance for the numerous stakeholder groups with vested interested in heritage, climate change and the future.
Original text from CORDIS.
Participants
- AARHUS UNIVERSITET · Aarhus CCoordinatorDenmark
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Data: CORDIS, © European Union