NL Commission for UNESCO: Culture-based solutions to local climate adaptation – Road to CAS webinar
Channel: CAS TV
Date: 2020-10-26

Climate adaptation is a technological innovation process, requiring technology and R&D investments to support a shift. It is, however, also a human process, requiring cultural resources and a change in mindset to succeed.

Climate change does not just force us to protect our culture and heritage; these in turn can protect us, by providing an abundance of readily available solutions to today’s problems, ranging from historical knowledge systems to old waterways.

Four best practices from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including cases from two cities, a rural-agricultural area, and the Dutch Caribbean, show how culture-based solutions to local climate adaptation were successfully implemented, and what local and traditional forms of knowledge, of building on past experiences, and of the use of culture and heritage can achieve to make climate action more culturally accepted.

A panel of experts and practitioners reflects on the role of heritage and culture as drivers for climate adaptation action.

Moderator: Corinne Hofman (NCfU, Leiden University).
Speakers: Marieke van Zanten (Het Oversticht), Saline Verhoeven (Landschap Noord-Holland), Huibert Crijns (Den Bosch), Kathleen Ferrier (NCfU), Bòi Antoin (Foundation FuHiKuBo, Bonaire).

https://www.unesco.nl/en

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This webinar is part of a series of interactive online sessions organized in the build-up to the Climate Adaptation Summit in 2021.

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