Building Climate Resilience through Community, Landscapes and Cultural Heritage

景观、社区和个人历来并将继续应对和适应气候变化，有些是通过渐进变化（可能不被注意），而另一些则通过景观的损益进行快速调整，反映其环境的突然变化。然而，这些活动的影响和适应的有效性在我们的现代景观中留下了痕迹。了解社区如何与环境相互作用并适应不断变化的环境，为研究如何通过各种机制管理和沟通未来的变化提供了基础，并在一系列空间和时间尺度上建立弹性。关于过去适应的信息经常被记录下来，但很难整合到关于社区恢复力的论述中。因此，社区可能没有足够的能力做出明智和适当的适应，以建设具有气候韧性的未来。这个共同创建的项目解决了这个信息和过程差距。地理环境和环境影响着人们和社区体验世界的方式以及与景观的互动。当地的知识、做法和经验在适当的地方出现，并反映了他们的具体环境。这些知识、实践和经验嵌入到物质主义和适应性反应和行为以及技术发展中。在这样做的过程中，随着时间的推移，它们对社区的脆弱性、适应性和复原力轨迹做出了独特的贡献。这项工作将为了解过去的社会如何受到环境变化的影响、如何应对环境变化并将其概念化提供重要的见解。它还将探讨个人、社区、机构、区域和国家在这些变化之后的反应和适应的性质。这些见解有助于为未来的气候适应能力提供信息。了解和掌握当地环境知识是成功开发社区适应系统的关键，这些系统包含与气候变化有关的不确定性，并有助于社区可持续地与其景观和环境相互作用。该项目与现有的和新的合作伙伴（历史悠久的英格兰，峡湾，斯塔福德郡档案局和博物馆&塔斯格兰南Eilean Siar -外赫布里底群岛的博物馆和档案馆）共同开发，将调查社区如何与气候变化共存并适应气候变化，以建立气候弹性社区。通过开发工具包，我们将支持和促进有关当前景观和环境的决策。该工具包将开发一种多方面的编目方法（历史、材料和档案），并在地理信息系统（GIS）中补充当代口述历史，在整个过程中采用与社区共同创造的方法。该项目将帮助所有合作机构更好地了解极端天气和气候对其开展业务的地区和社区的文化和社会经济影响，以及他们在工作中预测未来影响的方式。本研究解决了机构和当局（例如历史悠久的英格兰）当前对工具的需求，这些工具可以促进对文化遗产的理解和价值，以及它可以支持关于可持续未来的知情决策的方式，这支持社区在未来决策中的沟通和参与，这是建设弹性社区的基础。该工具包很有可能成为未来CCRA4的一个嵌入式方面，并对环境组织和地方/区域社区团体（例如洪水论坛和当地历史团体）具有直接价值，并在英国范围内塑造未来的政策辩论（例如FCERM战略）。

Landscapes, communities and individuals have historically and continue to cope and adapt to climate change, some through incremental changes (potentially unnoticed), whilst others make rapid adjustments, reflecting abrupt changes in their environment, through landscape loss and gain. However, the impact of these activities and the effectiveness of adaptations leaves traces in our modern landscape. Understanding how communities have interacted with their environments and adapted to changing circumstances provides a basis for examining how future changes may be managed and communicated through a variety of mechanisms, building resilience at a range of spatial and temporal scales across landscapes. Information on past adaptations is often recorded, but poorly integrated into discourses around community resilience. As a result communities can be ill equipped to make informed and appropriate adaptations for building climate resilient futures. This co-created project addresses this information and process gap. Geographical contexts and circumstances influence how people and communities experience the world and interact with their landscapes. Local knowledge, practices and experiences emerge in place and reflect their specific environment. These knowledge's, practices and experiences become embedded in materialistic and adaptation responses and behaviours, and technological developments. In doing so they make a distinctive contribution to community trajectories of vulnerability, adaptation and resilience over time. This work will afford important insights into how societies in the past have been affected by, coped with and conceptualized environmental changes. It will also explore the nature of the individual, community, institutional, regional and national responses and adaptations following these changes. These insights can help inform future climate resilience provision. Understanding and capturing local environmental knowledge is key to the successful development of community adaptation systems that embed uncertainties associated with climate change and assist communities to interact with their landscapes and environments sustainably. The project, co-developed with existing and new partners (Historic England; Fjordr; Staffordshire Record Office and Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean Siar - Museums and Archives of the Outer Hebrides) will investigate how communities have lived with and are living with and adapting to climate change to build climate resilient communities. Through the development of a toolkit we will support and facilitate decision making in respect to current landscapes and environments. The toolkit will develop a multifaceted approach of cataloguing features (historic, material and archival), supplemented with contemporary oral histories within a Geographical Information System (GIS), using an co-creation approach that engages with communities throughout the process. The project will help all of the partner institutions better appreciate the cultural and socio-economic implications of extreme weather and climate in the regions and communities within which they operate, and the ways in which they might anticipate future impacts in their work. This research addresses the current need of agencies and authorities (e.g. Historic England) for tools that facilitate understanding and value of cultural heritage and the ways in which it can underpin informed decisions about sustainable futures, which supports community communication and engagement in future decision making, which is fundamental in building resilient communities. There is clear potential for the toolkit to become an embedded aspect of future CCRA4 and of immediate value to environmental organisations and local/regional community groups (e.g. flood forums and local historical groups) and shape future policy debates (e.g. FCERM strategy) across the UK.