1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Climate Justice
List of Figures x
List of Tables xii
List of Contributors xiii
Foreword by Chrissy Grant, Eastern Kuku Yalanji and Mualgal Elder xviii
1 Introduction 1
Mesut Dinler and William Megarry
PART 1
Policy and Research Frameworks 7
2 Mainstreaming Indigenous Knowledge to Address Climate Injustice 9
Rohit Jigyasu
3 Navigating Climate Challenges through Repositioning Culture and Heritage 20
Hana Morel
Box 1 Climate Justice and Cultural Heritage in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 36
Adam Markham
4 Traditional Cultural Expression: The Missing Link in Article 7(5) Adaptation Strategies 39
Chamundeeswari Kuppuswamy
5 Resilient Heritage Trinidad and Tobago: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Resilience and Adaptation 52
Kara Roopsingh, Cleary Larkin and Kimberly Rose
Box 2 Indigenous Engagement in Heritage Policy 66
Juli Polanco
6 Re-Calibrating the Paris Agreement to Integrate Natural and Cultural Heritage Discourses into the International Climate Negotiations 68
Niyanta Shetye, Meetali Gupta and Eike Albrecht
Box 3 Decolonising Climate Change Heritage Research and Practice 83
Nicholas P. Simpson
7 Cultural Heritage and Youth Resilience: Navigating Eco-Anxiety in a Changing Climate 85
Giulia Mezzalama
Box 4 The Right to Leave a Planet 97
Carlo Mezzalama
8 Climate Action for Whom? Agents, Agendas, and Politics in Heritage Places 99
Mesut Dinler and Özgün Özçakır
9 Understanding and Compensating for Climate-Enhanced Losses and Damages in Adaptive Mobile Cultures and Livelihoods 110
Nuhu Adeiza Ismail, Annah Zhu and Ingrid Boas
PART 2
Critical Insights from Case Studies 125
10 Landscapes of Heritage, Affect, and Loss: A Case Study from Central Türkiye 127
Sevil Baltalı Tırpan and Atilla Kılınç
Box 5 Traditional Knowledge, Peripheral Communities, and Climate Justice: Case Studies from Brazil 140
Luana Cristina da Silva Campos and Aline Vieira de Carvalho
11 From Exploitation to Inundation: Colonial Legacies and Climate Futures for Bonaire’s Saltworks Landscapes 142
Deniz Ikiz and Anne Veere Hoogbergen
12 We Don’t Talk about Sustainability: Reconciling the Lack of Social Justice-Thinking in Heritage Conservation from Charleston, South Carolina 156
Barry L. Stiefel
13 Landscapes of Trust in Native North America 168
Beth Rose Middleton Manning, Melissa K. Nelson, Melinda Adams and Danny Manning
Box 6 Koutammakou and the Importance of Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge 180
Ibrahim Tchan
14 Echoes of Frost: Intangible Heritage, Loss, and Intergenerational Climate (In)justice in the Netherlands 182
Anne Veere Hoogbergen
15 Traditional Irrigation Systems in France: Co-producing Heritage and Environmental Discourses to Face Climate Change 193
Francesca Cominelli, Aurélie Condevaux, Clara Ducroz and Jie Liu
Box 7 Revisiting Anthropogenic Climate Change from an Integrated Nature-culture Approach 206
Maya Ishizawa Escudero
16 Climate Change and Sustainability: Challenges for Cultural Heritage and Local Communities in Rio de Janeiro 208
Marcos José de Araújo Pinheiro, Carla Maria Teixeira Coelho, Diego Vaz Bevilaqua, Luis Carlos Soares Madeira Domingues and Roberta dos Santos de Almeida
17 Heritage as Agency for Climate Action and Justice in the Anglophone Caribbean 220
Andrea Richards
Box 8 Reading the Signs of the Nature: Ancestral Knowledge as Living Tools in the Face of Climate Change in
Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) 232
Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado and Gabriela Caro León
18 A Case Study on Karbis’ Cultural Heritage: Climate Justice, Environmental Resilience, and Indigenous Eco-Wisdom in the Global South 234
Cringuta Irina Pelea and Sermily Terangpi
19 Colonial Shadows: Heritage, Climate Change, and the Struggle for Resilience in Post-Colonial Africa 249
Pelin Bolca
Box 9 Majuli: A Shrinking Riverine Landscape in the Brahmaputra Basin 259
M. Satish Kumar
20 Heritage as Resistance: Cosmopolitics and Intergenerational Climate (In)justice in Candomblé Terreiros 261
Bruno Amaral de Andrade, Celso Almeida Cunha, Thiago Assunção dos Santos and Fábio Macêdo Velame
21 The Multiple Pathways of Climate Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand 271
Sarah Forgesson
Box 10 Khan Jahan Style: An Indigenous Climate-responsive Architectural Knowledge System 284
Kh Mahfuz ud Darain
22 Linking Social Justice with Climate Justice at the Coal Mines Historic Site in Port Arthur, Tasmania (Australia) 287
Melathi Saldin and Mesut Dinler
Box 11 Appreciating Biocultural Heritage for Climate Action in an Arctic City 298
Vera Kuklina
PART 3
Learning from History and Heritage 301
23 Water Justice: The “Telaw Wells” of Laft as a Unique Hydrological Heritage System on Qeshm Island, Iran 303
Farzaneh Aliakbari
24 Intergenerational Approach to Climate Action Experiences in a University Museum of Contemporary Art in Argentina 312
Mauro García Santa Cruz, Jimena García Santa Cruz and Guillermo Rubén García
Box 12 Information, Power, and the Importance of Knowledge and Literacy for Climate Justice 326
William Megarry
25 Heritage Adapts: Empowering Communities to Safeguard their Cultural and Natural Heritage against Climate Change 328
William Megarry, Salma Sabour, Sarah Forgesson and Victoria Herrmann
Index 341
Biography
Mesut Dinler is Assistant Professor in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning at Politecnico di Torino. His research investigates how heritage can contribute to sustainable and resilient futures, integrating digital tools and data-driven methodologies to develop heritage-centred approaches to broader social and environmental challenges. He has contributed to several international research projects and has received fellowships from ICCROM, ICOMOS, and FWO.
William Megarry is Reader in Archaeology in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen’s University Belfast. His research explores the intersections between cultural heritage and climate change with a particular focus on risk assessment and climate literacy. Between 2021 and 2024, he was the Focal Point for Climate Change at the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He is Principal Investigator of the Preserving Legacies project.
