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Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Northern Ireland
Principal investigators Thomas McErlean, Rory McNeary and Kieran Westley
The project, Climate Change and Cultural Heritage in Northern Ireland, was officially established at the Centre for Maritime Archaeology (CMA) in April 2011 and is funded by NIEA, Built Heritage. The project intends to initiate a more focused understanding of the significance of Climate Change for Cultural Heritage in Northern Ireland in light of Government’s mitigation and adaptation agendas under the UK Climate Change Act 2008. It aims to provide both a qualitative and quantitative approach and will define parameters, risks and impacts of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage sites in Northern Ireland; propose preventive (monitoring and mitigation) and corrective (risk management and adaption) actions for Cultural Heritage sites in Northern Ireland and produce quantitative mapping to better highlight vulnerable Cultural Heritage sites in Northern Ireland. This will be a strategic overview and concentrates on the known historic record.
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Cathy Daly from the faculty of Real Estate and Construction at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) will give a talk on her research into current practice in relation to the assessment and monitoring of climate change impacts on cultural heritage (with a focus on site-specific monitoring at Bru na Boinne and Skelling Michael). Cathy also currently sits on ICOMOS Ireland’s sub-committee on climate change. This talk will be at the School of Environmental Science, University of Ulster, Coleraine. Date: Feb 8th 2012 (time to be confirmed).