AGREE

Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation

Climate & Cultural Heritage Joint CallClimate science

Climate change, a multifaceted challenge interwoven with social, economic, and environmental dimensions, defies simplistic solutions. Despite global efforts, the pursuit of sustainability has fallen short, hindered by a narrow technical focus. This limited perspective has impeded the development of integrated, context-specific solutions. In response, AGREE champions transformative sustainability, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies and societal shifts. It explores the intricate link between cultural heritage governance, climate adaptation, and community resilience, rooted in responses to flooding in urban contexts.

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AGREE promotes the Historic Urban Landscape concept for integrative decision-making in climate adaptation, considering community resilience amidst environmental changes. An interactive Geographic Information System (GIS) platform will illuminate this interplay over time.

An innovative AGREE’s contribution is a decision-making model grounded in the HUL paradigm. This model juxtaposes current national and local policies enabling cultural heritage integration in climate adaptation with historical data sources revealing urban resilience lessons and changes in the built environment over time. AGREE employs transformative governance concepts to evaluate decision-makers’ comprehension of these synergies and their perspectives. It advances transformative climate adaptation by uncovering potentials and barriers within heritage governance in case studies from the UK, Norway, and Italy.

Beyond research, AGREE will shape policies with multi-scalar and cross-sectoral governance, interpreting climate intricacies through cultural heritage. It will strengthen global, national, and local heritage-focused climate strategies through partnerships with the British Council, ICCROM, and the UK’s Department for Culture, Media, and Sport and local stakeholders, such as Hull City Council (UK) and Innlandet Region (Norway).

AGREE also engages the public, raising climate adaptation awareness and mobilizing collective action, benefiting governmental climate efforts.

Francesca Giliberto

University of Leeds

Dr Francesca Giliberto is an academic researcher, conservation architect, and independent consultant renowned for her interdisciplinary expertise spanning cultural heritage, urban conservation and management, and development studies. With a career marked by impactful contributions to the field of heritage in the context of global challenges, she has established herself as a thought leader at the intersection of academia and practical application. Dr Giliberto's interdisciplinary and dynamic research trajectory is centred around cultural heritage conservation and management, global challenges, sustainable development, policy evaluation, and inclusive and participatory approaches. Her work has impacted policies, practices, and decision-making processes, aiming to inspire robust and multi-sectoral responses to societal challenges.

Project consortium

University of Leeds
Hull City Council
UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport
British Council, Research and Insight
Urban Heritage, Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management
Innlandet

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The Research Council of Norway
Ministry of Education, University and Research
Arts and Humanities Research Council

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Climate&Cultural Heritage

Collaborative Research Action by the JPIs on Cultural Heritage and Climate and the Belmont Forum

This Call is jointly organised between the Joint Programming Initiatives Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) and Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate) and the Belmont Forum. The Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level.

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