Adapting nature to protect our heritage
This year, we are excited to co-host a session at SIWI’s World Water Week alongside IHE Delft, IUCN, University of Technology Sydney, and SD-WISHEES. Join us on Thursday, August 28th, at 11:00 AM CEST in Room C1, Level 2. The session will be moderated by Maria Lindelien (IUCN) and will feature Alejandro Iza (IUCN), , Amanda Loeffen (HR2W), Bradley Moggridge (University of Technology Sydney) and Eddy Moors (IHE Delft) as speakers.
For more background information on the session read our policy brief: here
This session will highlight the impacts of hydroclimatic events on cultural heritage, and the nature-based innovations that can be used to protect these assets. Drawing from a wide range of experiences between the presenters, we will demonstrate systems that have worked in the past, and that can be translated into modern settings. Importantly, we are looking to share policies that can be replicated across the world, to support climate mitigation for this purpose. Building on the need for a participative and community-focussed approach to find long term solutions, we concentrate on the international laws that are implicit in the human rights-based approach, and how these can be applied successfully to engage communities at local level that care about cultural heritage. We examine the implications for protecting tangible heritage (buildings and ancestral monuments) and natural heritage, and how these are connected through the ways that people live in these environments and value their contributions.
Programme
- Introduction
- Panel discussion with Alejandro Iza (IUCN), Amanda Loeffen (HR2W) and Eddy Moors (45 minutes)
- Keynote presentation from Eddy Moors (IHE-Delft) – highlighting the main issues for investment in the WCCH-Nexus (10 minutes)
- Discussion with audience on how to put this issue higher on the agenda (30 minutes)
- General Q&A with the audience
Meet our speakers
