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.
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.
Author: Professor Luci Attala. The paper presented by Luci Attala, Deputy Executive Director of UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, at the World Anthropological Union Congress 2024: Post Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: Adapting to the Turbulence of a Rapidly Changing World.
Professor Luci Attala, Deputy Executive Director of UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Coalition, and Director of the UK Hub at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, was recently selected by the Wales Arts and Humanities Alliance (WAHA) to participate in the Alliance for Research on Cultural Heritage in Europe event (ARCHE) in Brussels on March 5–6, 2025.
A paper published as Written Evidence for the UK Parliament to consider: The environmental and economic legacy of Wales' industrial past. Coastal Tales: Kilvey Hill (Swansea) and the Teifi as Projects of Contentious Urban Woodland and River Restoration.
