CuHeMo

In CuHeMo we examine the role that cultural heritage plays in climate change adaptation, drawing from climate sciences, social sciences, and indigenous ways of knowing. We focus on indigenous groups whose livelihoods have historically been mobile, specifically pastoralists and fishery communities in Thailand, Ethiopia and Senegal. In researching this, CuHeMo offers a transdisciplinary perspective bringing together climate scientists, social scientists and indigenous knowledge holders.

CuHeMo will do this for a diversity of climate parameters and geographical spaces, through in-depth yet comparative case-studies. This integrative assessment of climate-cultural risk will include attention to the ways in which large-scale and place-based sustainability projects may hinder the mobile practices of indigenous cultural heritage.

Through participative methodologies and knowledge utilization activities, including community-based workshops, artistic expressions with indigenous communities, policy mobilization, and a project video intended for a broad public audience, our findings will shape mainstream policy debates concerning climate adaptation and mobile cultures.