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Culture and Climate Resilience

Perspectives from Europe

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  • © 2021

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Editors:
  1. Grit Martinez

    1. Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany

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  • Argues for the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience
  • Explores community resilience in Europe
  • Discusses strategies for building sustainable, climate resilient communities

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies (PSCRS)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: The Fruit of Approaching Climate Resilience Through Culture

    • Grit Martinez
    Pages 1-3

  3. Cultural Analysis and Climate Resilience

    • Grit Martinez, Simo Häyrynen
    Pages 5-13

  4. Cultural Insights into Coastal Risks and Climate Change Resilience of a Society ‘in Transition’

    • Nataliya K. Andreeva, Zoritza K. Kiresiewa, Nikolay N. Valchev, Petya T. Eftimova
    Pages 15-43

  5. Livek: A Mountainous Border Area’s Transformation from a Ski Paradise to a Resilient Community

    • Mimi Urbanc, Mateja Šmid Hribar
    Pages 45-68

  6. Contested Bogs in Ireland: A Viewpoint on Climate Change Responsiveness in Local Culture

    • Simo Häyrynen, Caitriona Devery, Aparajita Banerjee
    Pages 69-95

  7. Climate Resilience on the Island of Pellworm: Balancing Multiple Layers in the Context of Climate Change

    • Daniela Siedschlag, Kira Gee
    Pages 97-118

  8. Culture and Climate Resilience: A Comparative Analysis of Experiences and Practices in Four Case Studies Across Europe

    • Mimi Urbanc, Grit Martinez
    Pages 119-130

  9. Correction to: Livek: A Mountainous Border Area’s Transformation from a Ski Paradise to a Resilient Community

    • Mimi Urbanc, Mateja Šmid Hribar
    Pages C1-C1

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 131-136
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About this book

This book addresses the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience in place based contexts. There is a growing impetus among policy makers and practitioners to support and empower capacities of communities under changing climatic conditions. Despite this there is little systematic understanding of why approaches work at local levels or not and what makes some communities resilient and others less so. 


Europe is typically thought to be well equipped for coping with the effects of a changing climate - because of its moderate climate, its manifold urban-industrialized regions, it’s typically highly skilled population, its successes in science and technology and its advanced climate change policies. However, there is a growing need to understand the effects culture has on communal resiliency and for decision makers and planners to pay attention to historical and cultural characteristics and the complexityof contextualized local conditions to enable successful and durable implementation of climate change policies, programs and measures. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in facilitating sustainable, resilient communities.   



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“This collection centring on the relationship between culture, place and climate change provides essential background for cultural heritage specialists who are mobilising the past to equip communities for the future. Understanding the relationship between people and their environments in the past and in the future is a core concern for archaeologists and cultural heritage specialists. Archaeological data provides hard evidence of climate change over millennia, detailing also how people have responded by adapting to but perhaps also exacerbating impacts. Equally, climate change is threatening many treasured places around the world, obliging countries and communities to make tough decisions about what can be saved. There are lessons we can learn from the fabric of historic buildings and landscapes about how people used to live with challenging environmental conditions, but the past also provides a setting that can help the urgent conversations and transformative changes that need to occur amongst individuals, communities and societies. Culture is fundamental to engaging with climate change: the insights and case studies in this volume provide vital context for climate heritage research and practice.”
(Dr. Antony Firth, MCIfA, Director, Fjordr Ltd., UK)




“These authors convincingly show the power of cultural analysis in building resilience to climate change.  Combined, the case studies advance our understanding of lessons learned and paths forward. They provide important lessons from Europe on why culture must be central to our research, policies and interventions to make community’s climate resilient.”  
(Michael J. Paolisso, University of Maryland)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Ecologic Institute, Berlin, Germany

    Grit Martinez

About the editor

Grit Martinez is a senior researcher at the Ecologic Institute in Berlin, Germany and associate research professor at the department of anthropology of the University of Maryland, USA. She spent more than 15 years working on topics in environmental historical and cultural studies related to coastal hazards, climate change and community resilience with the objective of policy makers and practitioners making use of our past knowledge to cope with future changes.

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