Adapting to Climate Change. A Positive Legacy for Scotland’s historic environment.
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2019-07-17

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has a strong legislative foundation from which it has planned its approach to climate change adaptation in the historic environment. This includes providing leadership, support and guidance to the historic environment sector. Our approach to impacts and adaptation in the historic environment has involved working closely with partner organisations, both within the sector and beyond it.  In assessing risk from natural hazards to the HES Estate, we have worked in close partnership with British Geological Survey and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.  As part of the Steering Group for Dynamic Coast: Scotland’s Coastal Change Assessment, we have worked across multiple sectors to gain a deep understanding of coastal processes and their implications.  Similarly, as a core partner in Edinburgh Adapts, working with multiple partners, we have been able to mainstream the historic environment in a vision and action plan for a climate ready capital city.

Mairi Davies, David Harkin and Ewan Hyslop (Historic Environment Scotland)