Multiscale approaches and scalability within climate change – heritage risk assessments (SASCHA).

SASCHA aims to assess how climate change affects heritage sites using a practical approach.

It plans to:

1. Create clear ways to measure climate impacts
2. Involve diverse voices in identifying these impacts
3. Develop a tool to help communities adapt to climate change at different levels
4. Explore challenges and opportunities in this process.

With partners experienced in climate change and heritage, SASCHA will work with ICCROM and case study stakeholders to improve methods for assessing, interpreting, and communicating climate change risks for heritage, helping policymakers and heritage managers make informed decisions.

NIKU has an active role in the following Work Packages (WP):

• WP1: Operationalising indicators for climate change risks for heritage
• WP2: Case study protocols and implementation for meetings/workshops with stakeholders for each case study (Hiortham, Svalbard)
• WP3 will develop a decision support tool to evaluate operationalized indicators/metrics (WP1) across scales as well as providing optimized decisions for heritage sites driven by community stakeholders’ climate adaptation priorities (WP2).

Project manager from NIKU is Paloma Guzman.