Articulating the climate-heritage relationship and its ‘glocal’ context commenced with an informal lecture on a local archaeological heritage site, including its relationship with climate in the past, and the current and future risks from global anthropogenic climate change. By ‘scaling-up’ the connection between the local heritage and global climate change, the glocal connection was established. This allowed greater ease when ‘scaling-down’ the oftentimes overwhelming scale of climate change and the individual climate action required for genuine mitigation. Attendees were invited to become citizen scientists, that is, invited to collect and circulate their own data in relation to the heritage site.
Comprehension of climate change and engagement with climate action was measured through a series of questionnaires, before during and after the data collection and circulation. The results were overwhelmingly positive in relation to climate action with all participants (100%), in the Stage 2 questionnaire, stating their intentions to act on climate change and with 90% of participants stating examples of personal climate action in the Stage 3 questionnaire.
Adaptation to climate changeAddressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
Policy makers to adopt or strengthen the articulation of climate-heritage relationships set in their local-global context in order to generate climate action within and across member states.
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
The results at all heritage researched are the same allowing for confidence in the results.
The generation of climate action can be replicated by adopting the same methodology at various heritage sites (including different types of heritage such as natural, cultural, urban and so on).
