British Academy – Heritage Loss and Climate Change Damage

British Academy Conferences 2023-24

Measuring Heritage Loss and Damage from Climate Change for Effective Policy Reporting

This one-day conference will explore how to measure the human cost of loss and damage to coastal heritage from climate change related sea-level rise and coastal erosion, and to align humanities-social science heritage scholarship with science-based climate change scholarship.

There is increasing recognition that archaeology and heritage have more to offer climate change policy, but due to disciplinary differences in methodologies and how data and evidence are expressed and communicated, heritage rarely incorporated in climate change assessment reports.

In this Conference, invited speakers will discuss: 

• What it might mean to measure impacts on individuals and communities, and how to effectively measure the human cost of loss and damage 
• Knowledge gaps in understanding the human dimension of loss and damage to heritage, and how credible opportunities for co-production might enhance understandings
• The implications of disciplinary differences in methodologies and how data and evidence are expressed and communicated, and how this impacts the arts, social sciences and humanities incorporation to climate change thinking, assessments and responses.

Last Booking Date for this Event16^th March 2023