Marte Boro, Riksantikvaren

Therese Sonehag, Riksantikvarieämbetet

Nordic Solutions for robust societies

Norrköping 24/10 2018

Session 1d: Adapt Northern Heritage

Adapt Northern Heritage is a project

supporting communities and local authorities to

adapt northern cultural heritage

to the environmental impacts of

climate change and associated natural hazards

through community engagement and

informed conservation planning.

The Northern Periphery and Arctic 2014-2020 Programme– part of the European Territorial Cooperation Objectives; Interreg.To achieve NPA-programme vision:4. Protecting, Promoting and Developing Cultural and Natural Heritage

Marte Boro 29. oktober 2018

Project results

Develop procedures for - risks and vulnerability assessments and - sustainable adaptation planning

Make adaptation action plans for the demonstration case studies

Create a network of stakeholders concerned with conservation in the context of a changing climate to contribute, engage, learn and network.

Goals in 2018

▪ Develop a risk assessment method guidance

▪ Test, get feed back on how it’s working and on

improvements

▪ Make risk assessments of strategic cultural

heritage, the demonstration sites

▪ Revise the method accordingly

Foto: Mycoteam© Foto: Nils Inge LorentsenFoto: M Boro©Riksantikvaren

CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTION

CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIO – wetter, warmer and more extreme weathers

CAUSES damages from natural hazards to long term effects

CALL FOR better maintenance, informed conservation planning, climate smart

solutions, risk analyses and measures

Actors and target groups

ANH: A wide range of actors - owners, cultural heritage

managers, property managers

Municipalities are a starting point!

▪ Crucial in governing Cultural Heritage Sites through the Building and planning act

▪ Important actor in planning, prepare and prevent climate related damages

▪ The first to experience climate change impacts on local basis

▪ Owner of Cultural Heritage Sites, manage sites, promote active living, tourism etc

▪ Conducts planning policies «Kommuneplan og -delplan», «Kulturmiljöplan» (according to the

Building and planning act)

Objects/Aims at/Purpose (rubrik?)

It is important to do risk assesments of cultural heritage in a changing climateBecause• Important knowledge base• Cost less money to do preventive measures• Can’t afford losing cultural and/or natural values

Benefits:Mitigates risk and consequensesInformed conservationImproved management

Improving capacities of for local communitites:Start-up tools for local communititesImproved policies, actions and measures

Helge Mikalsen/VG/NTB scanpix

Andrew Bowden, Wikimedia Commons

Bartjan –Sami Summer gathering in JämtlandGathering for label reindeers: Ancient sami monuments (storages, foundations, hearths, bones), kåtor

Climate change effects and impacts

Illustration ur «Klimatstrategi Jämtlands län 2018-2024»

Today:

Seasons are longer and shorter-

Longer periods of temperatures around Zero

Shorter periods of snow

Shorter or longer periods of Summer

Environmental impacts:

Effects vegetation (overgrowing, feeding), dry periods

and heat waves (heat fires, ground water), insects

Impacts on Tåssåsen Sami Village

Foto: Jan Gustavsson, Ájtte, Svenskt Fjäll-och Samemuseum (PDM)

Foto: Eva E Karlsson, Länsstyrelsen Jämtland

Economic and Social impacts:

Effects traditional use and immaterial heritage;

Effects Reindeer herding =

Effects land use and

Effects the use of Sites

Hiorthhamn, Svalbard – Mining community Old buildings, cable way and railway …

Hiorthhamn, mining settlement, Svalbard, Norway

Climate change effects

and impacts

Increasing

- temperature,

- precipitation

- storm frequency

Higher rates of precipitation falling as rain,

increased winter precipitation and thawing

permafrost.

Natural hazard frequency and rates is

predicted to increase:

▪ Increased erosion on riverbanks and

along costal lines – intensified by

melting/lack of sea ice during wintertime.

▪ Increased snow avalange risk

▪ solifluction (gradual movement of wet soil down a

slope), landslides and rockfalls

Aurland municipality and Aurlandsdalen and summer farms

Aurlandsdalen today a national

historic trail – once an important

connection between the east and

west of Norway. It also links the

valley's many important farms

and summer farms.

Several summer farms areas.

SANNSYNLIG ØKE

MULIG SANNSYNLIG ØKE

SANNSYNLIG UENDRA ELLER MINDRE

USIKKER

Warmer, wetter and more

extreme weather

More

- moisture,

- land slide,

- biological growth,

- insects attack,

- rote,

- avalanges,

- melting of snow drifts.

Similarities Aurland, Svalbard and Bartjan? ▪ All 3: Landscape important is important and the challenge on degradation of wooden building materials

▪ Bartjan and Svalbard: Managed without a very long time horizon – They are used to adapt (On

Svalbard houses have been moved before and in Bartjan they move after the reindeer)

▪ Svalbard and Aurland: flooding, erosion (rivers and sea) common challenges – need for prioritizing and

documentation

▪ Aurland and Bartjan: communication, identity, use are common challenges

Challenge having one method with:

▪ Different types of users with different roles,

goals, resources and skills

▪ Different types of cultural heritage objects or

environment

Needs flexibility!

Learnings so far

Climate data

▪ How to get data?

- Different sources in the different countries

▪ What data is relevant?

- Depending on location, type of cultural

heritage object/environment, goals …

▪ What data do we manage to use?

- Depending on type of impact/damage,

qualifications…

▪ Is local knowledge the most important?

How to ensure to not spend more resources than

necessary and to use the recourses best?

How advanced can and should the method be?

Next steps▪ Revise the risk assessment method

▪ Finalice the risk assessments at the

sites

▪ Develop a guide for Planning risk

reduction measures

▪ Test the guide for risk reduction 2019

on the sites

▪ Revice the guide

▪ Develope an online tool