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

在不久的将来，文化遗产将面临重大变革，以应对气候变化。缓解和适应措施将影响经济治理，并对建筑和景观（如热效率、可再生能源）带来可持续性压力，此外还会受到环境变化的直接物理、化学和有机影响（如海岸侵蚀、山体滑坡、城市发展材料溶解、微生物定居）。影响将在一定范围内发生，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复原力，但也需要了解我们如何从政府到公民层面更有效地决策和管理。社会方面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认知和评价中起着核心作用。因此，为了应对未来的挑战，有必要制定有效的、适应性强的管理和决策政策和方法，以最好地利用最新的科学和技术发展。我们的目标是建立一个集群，在苏格兰和北爱尔兰的区域背景下，对这些威胁和创新机会做出统一的跨学科反应。

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.