Here follows details of recent Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) related publications. CCHRI is a lead partner in the UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES CUNY-Princeton Thematic Hub. The first three publications below are specifically relevant to CCHRI’s BRIDGES-related projects:
On Thursday 10th April Profs. Louise Steel and Luci Attala presented Heritage Tales of Coastal Adaptation in Northern Regions at the Apheleia bi-weekly online conference series, chaired by Professor Luis Oosterbeek, president of CIPSH (International Council for the Philosophy and Human Sciences).
The plenary session of the online Midterm Event for the Belmont Forum’s Climate and Cultural Heritage projects took place on Tuesday 29th April. Sixteen projects were selected for funding by the Belmont Forum, including Coastal TALES.
Archaeological sites across the circumpolar north are rapidly degrading as a consequence of rising global temperatures. This short film shares the story of the Greenland RESPONSE project and the archaeologists racing to record and rescue what is left. Focussing on the sub-arctic farming landscape of Kujataa, south Greenland, the film documents the excavations of Norse (Viking) farming settlements dating between the 10th-14th centuries, while exploring the very tangible connections to present-day Inuit farming communities working the same soil.
Author: Gareth Thomas. At the centre of Wales’s economic transformation, shaped by its role as the first country to industrialise, lies a persistent legacy of environmental damage. Across the country, there are abandoned sites from former heavy industry, including old metallurgical works, derelict coalfields, disused mines, and polluted river systems.
