Coastal TALES, Telling Adaptation: Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience

沿海故事问：过去的做法如何帮助人们在快速变化的沿海环境中重新发现更可持续的生活方式？我们的目标是展示如何利用遗产故事来创造切实的地方行动，让各地的个人都能采取行动，帮助适应不断变化的气候。为了探索这一点，我们使用跨学科的方法，将当地社区的知识和专业知识与跨学科边界的学术技能结合起来，专注于三个北部沿海地区：阿拉斯加、爱尔兰和威尔士。人们正在感受到气候变化的结果，并询问他们可以在实地做些什么，但现在许多行动感到不足，而且建立在对当地影响微乎其微的承诺之上。因此，这项研究关注到越来越多的社会需求，即了解个人如何应对国内气候变化的影响。它提供了如何在不同地点将故事转化为切实行动的例子，并为那些希望积极、可持续地适应的人提供了创造性的灵感。沿海故事与社会伙伴合作，了解遗产故事正在推动教育、政策和当地基于自然的创新方面的行动。

Coastal TALES asks: How can stories of past practices help people rediscover more sustainable ways of living in their rapidly changing coastal environments? Our goal is to show how heritage stories can be used to create tangible local action that individuals everywhere can enact to help adapt to the changing climate. To explore this we use transdisciplinary methods, which bring together the knowledge and expertise of local communities in combination with academic skills working across disciplinary boundaries, to focus on three northern coastal regions: Alaska, Ireland and Wales. People are feeling the results of the climate changing and are asking what they can do on the ground, but many actions now feel insufficient and are predicated on undertakings that have little perceptible local effect. This research therefore attends to the growing social need to understand how individuals can address the effects of the climate changing at home. It provides examples of how stories can be transformed into tangible action in different locations and offers creative inspiration to those who want to actively adapt sustainably. Coastal TALES collaborates with societal partners to understand heritage stories are driving action in education, policy and local nature-based innovation.