This volume contains contributions from over 60 authors from 20 countries exploring the importance of climate justice and equity in climate action. While focused on cultural heritage, its relevance extends into other fields including policy, just transitions, development studies, and climate adaptation. Its central message is that climate action and climate justice are inseparable in our response to the climate crisis.
Key cross-cutting themes explored in 25 contributions and ten information boxes include economic and non-economic loss and damage with a particular focus on intangible cultural heritage, the importance of plural ways of knowing and bridging different epistemologies, the intersectionality of risk, loss, and action with a particular focus on the historical and ongoing impacts of colonialism and other forms of historical injustice, and the importance of community- centred approaches to climate action including climate literacy and education.
This book is targeted widely to those both within and outside of the heritage sector. It addresses themes of importance to those working in heritage practice and research, policy development and climate adaption and mitigation. It will also be of relevance to those working with communities impacted by climate change.
This volume explores the importance of climate justice and equity in climate action. While focused on cultural heritage, its relevance extends into other fields including policy, just transitions, development studies and climate adaptation.
1. Introduction (Mesut Dinler and William Megarry) PART 1: POLICY AND
RESEARCH FRAMEWORKS
2. Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge to address Climate
Injustice (Rohit Jigyasu)
3. Navigating Climate Challenges through
Repositioning Culture and Heritage(Hana Morel)
4. Traditional Cultural
Expression: The Missing Link in Article 7(5) Adaptation Strategies (Chamu
Kuppuswamy)
5. Resilient Heritage Trinidad and Tobago: An Interdisciplinary
Approach to Building Resilience and Adaptation (Kara Roopsingh, Cleary Larkin
and Kimberly Rose)
6. Re-Calibrating the Paris Agreement to Integrate Natural
and Cultural Heritage Discourses into the International Climate Negotiations
(Niyanta Shetye, Meetali Gupta and Eike Albrecht)
7. Cultural Heritage and
Youth Resilience: Navigating Eco-Anxiety in a Changing Climate (Giulia
Mezzalama)
8. Climate Action for Whom? Agents, Agendas, and Politics in
Heritage Places (Mesut Dinler and Ozgun Ozcakir)
9. Understanding and
Compensating for Climate-enhanced Losses and Damages in Adaptive Mobile
Cultures and Livelihoods (Nuhu Adeiza Ismai, Annah Zhu and Ingrid Boas) PART
2: CRITICAL INSIGHTS FROM CASE STUDIES
10. Landscapes of Heritage, Affect and
Loss: A Case Study from Central Türkiye (Sevil Baltal Trpan and Atilla
Klnç)
11. From Exploitation to Inundation: Colonial Legacies and Climate
Futures for Bonaires Saltworks Landscapes (Deniz Ikiz and Anne Veere
Hoogbergen)
12. We Dont Talk about Sustainability: Reconciling the Lack of
Social Justice-Thinking in Heritage Conservation from Charleston, South
Carolina (Barry Stiefel)
13. Landscapes of Trust in Native North America
(Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Melissa K. Nelson, Melinda Adams and Danny
Manning)
14. Echoes of Frost: Intangible Heritage, Loss, and
Intergenerational Climate (In)justice in the Netherlands (Anne Veere
Hoogbergen)
15. Traditional irrigation systems in France: Co-producing
Heritage and Environmental Discourses to Face Climate Change (Francesca
Cominelli, Aurélie Condevaux, Clara Ducroz and Jie Liu)
16. Climate change
and Sustainability: Challenges to Cultural Heritage and Local Populations in
Brazil (Marcos José de Araújo Pinheiro, Carla Maria Teixeira Coelho, Diego
Vaz Bevilaqua, Luis Carlos Soares Madeira Domingues and Roberta dos Santos de
Almeida)
17. Heritage as Agency for Climate Action and Justice in the
Anglophone Caribbean (Andrea Richards)
18. A Case Study on Karbis Cultural
Heritage: Climate Justice, Environmental Resilience, and Indigenous Eco-
Wisdom in the Global South (Cringuta Irina Pelea and Sermily Terangpi)
19.
Colonial Shadows: Heritage, Climate Change, and the Struggle for Resilience
in Post-Colonial Africa (Pelin Bolca)
20. Heritage as Resistance:
Cosmopolitics and Intergenerational Climate (In)justice in Candomblé
Terreiros (Bruno Amaral de Andrade, Celso Almeida Cunha, Thiago Assunção dos
Santos and Fábio Macêdo Velame)
21. The Multiple Pathways of Climate Justice
in Aotearoa New Zealand (Sarah Forgesson)
22. Heritage Place Lab: Historic
Coal Mines (Melathi Saldin and Mesut Dinler) PART 3: LEARNING FROM HISTORY
AND HERITAGE
23. Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge for Climate Resilience:
Insights from Qeshm Island UNESCO Global Geopark, Iran (Farzaneh Aliakbari)
24. Intergenerational Approach to Climate Action Experiences in a University
Museum of Contemporary Art in Argentina (Mauro García Santa Cruz, Jimena
García Santa Cruz and Guillermo Rubén García)
25. Heritage Adapts: Empowering
Communities to Safeguard their Cultural and Natural Heritage against Climate
Change (William Megarry, Sarah Forgesson, Salma Sabour and Victoria Herrmann)
Mesut Dinler is Assistant Professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning at Politecnico di Torino. His research investigates how heritage can contribute to sustainable and resilient futures, integrating digital tools and data-driven methodologies to develop heritage-centred approaches to broader social and environmental challenges. He has contributed to several international research projects and has received fellowships from ICCROM, ICOMOS, and FWO.
William Megarry is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queens University Belfast. His research explores the intersections between cultural heritage and climate change with a particular focus on risk assessment and climate literacy. Between 2021 and 2024, he was the Focal Point for Climate Change at the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He is Principal Investigator of the Preserving Legacies project.
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