Transformation and resilience of our landscapes, archaeology and built heritage: defining responses to societal and environmental pressures

在不久的将来，文化遗产将因气候变化而发生重大变化。缓解和适应措施将影响经济治理，并对建筑物和景观（如热效率，可再生能源）带来可持续性压力，以及不断变化的环境的直接物理，化学和有机影响（如海岸侵蚀，山体滑坡，城市发展材料溶解，微生物定植）。影响将在一系列规模上发生，这将推动保护需求的变化。我们迫切需要从物质的角度了解文化遗产对这些转型压力的适应力，以及我们如何才能更有效地从政府到公民层面进行决策和管理。社会和物质方面之间存在着复杂的相互作用;科学的理解和创新在我们对文化遗产的看法和评价中发挥着核心作用。因此，为了迎接未来的挑战，需要制定有效的、适应性强的管理和决策政策和方法，最大限度地利用最新的科学和技术发展。我们的目标是形成一个集群，在苏格兰和北方爱尔兰的区域背景下，建立一个统一的跨学科应对这些威胁和创新机会。

Cultural Heritage will, in the near future, be subject to substantial transformation in response to changing climate. Mitigation and adaptation measures will affect economic governance, and introduce sustainability pressures on buildings and landscape (e.g. thermal efficiency, renewables), in addition to the direct physical, chemical and organic impacts from the changing environment (e.g. coastal erosion, landslides, urban development material dissolution, microbial colonisation). Affects will occur on a range of scales that will drive changes in conservation needs. We desperately need to understand the resilience of the Cultural Heritage against these transformational pressures, from a material perspective, but also how we can be more effective in decision making and management from government to citizen level. A complex interaction exists between social and material aspects; scientific understanding and innovation plays a central part in our perceptions and valuation of the Cultural Heritage. As a result, inorder to meet future challenges there is a need to develop effective, adaptable management and decision making policies and methodologies, that utilise to best effect the latest scientific and technological developments. We aim to form a cluster that will establish, in a regional context for Scotland and Northern Ireland, a unified and interdisciplinary response to these threats and opportunities for innovation.