A brief overview and poster for our project called CRITICAL Cultural Heritage risk and impact tools for integrated and collaborative learning.
Cultural Heritage shapes our identity, delivers capacities
and exposes vulnerabilities yet community derived perspectives on cultural
value, significance and vulnerability are missing from conventional risk
assessments that support sustainable development and growth. This presentation
will discuss the preliminary findings from an AHRC GCRF urgency project called
CRITICAL. Working in partnership across Indonesia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka
the CRITICAL project combines heritage management, cultural geography and
climate risk research to form a community of practice focused on Low and Middle
Income Countries and aims to: 1) identify the key parameters for cultural
heritage impact assessment; 2) deliver an impact modelling approach to inform
risk information for decision-making, and 3) share resulting tools and learning
through capacity building and research for policy. Drawing on recent community
based fieldwork across three case studies as well as systematic literature
reviews this presentation will address the first aim of the project. We will
share a diversity of contextual cultural value framings for impact assessments
that can contribute to risk management and climate change adaptation policy
development and implementation.