With the narrative of climate change shifting to what has recently been referred to as a climate ‘crisis’ with a call to move toward ‘climate action’, we see the re-emergence of human ecology through the coupled human-environment system (CHANS), recognising the need to move beyond traditional research methods and paradigms to effectively address sustainability concerns including concern over extreme climate variability.

This webinar explores the nuances of addressing heritage studies within climate research, and the wider entanglements of resilience, adaptation and mitigation more visible with the need for transformation. It explores heritage gaps in our understanding of the climate crisis drawn out from preliminary heritage-related work of IPCC documents, and suggests that heritage studies can provide key insights, as both methodological approaches as well as applicable insights, to a more just and managed transformation.