Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020
Date and time
Location
The Prince Philip Building
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Nicolson St Edinburgh EH8 9DW United KingdomRefund Policy
Description
Climate change is threatening historic places across the world, especially in the world’s Northern regions.
The international Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020 will explore practices and research concerned with:
- assessing the environmental impacts of climate change and their associated risks on historic places
- planning and/or implementing adaptation measures to make historic places more resilient to climate change, where possible, or alternatively manage their loss
This peer-review conference offers themed parallel sessions over the course of two days with oral and poster presentations. A conference dinner will conclude day one of the programme.
The conference will explore the following themes:
- o Assessing the risks of climate change to historic places
- o Engaging communities with regard to historic place adaptation
- o Planning adaptation of historic places to climate change
- o Management of loss of historic places due to climate change
For the latest version of the programme, visit the conference website http://adaptnorthernheritage.interreg-npa.eu/anh-conference-2020/
Additional information
Booking required. Please advise of any dietary requirements in advance.
One conference dinner ticket is included as part of your conference registration.
If you have any quetions please do not hesitate to contact adaptnorthernheritage@gmail.com
Organised by
Historic Environment Scotland is the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland’s historic environment. We want to make sure Scotland’s heritage is cherished, understood, shared and enjoyed with pride by everyone.