Cultural heritage

An analysis of the 41 responses from 16 countries collected from a survey focusing on cultural heritage at risk and launched in July 2026 by the PROCULTHER-4ALL Consortium looks at how and where whole-of-society approaches are applied.

This Sicilian community has endured for centuries. But climate change, drought, heat and wildfires are threatening farming livelihoods in Sicily’s Arbëreshë community, raising concerns over the potential loss of a 500-year-old cultural heritage.

Cultural heritage protection has become an increasingly important component of European disaster risk management and civil protection.

Communities choosing to stay on their ancestral lands rather than engaging in climate-related planned relocation offer an important perspective—one that recentres cultural security as fundamental to climate security.

In this study, the authors focused on shrines in Nagoya located in areas with high flood-exposure potential to explore the traditional flood-resilience strategies of shrine spaces established over several centuries.

This study examines how residents’ perceptions of disaster heritage influence attitudes toward its preservation.

In a summer of wildfires severe enough to trigger Spain’s first-ever national emergency for a forest fire, a historic stone structure called the Nevera de Castro stands in a landscape burned bare in the Castellón region

Seeking contributions on traditional medicine, vernacular architecture, agricultural practices, clothing traditions, oral history, and other community-based knowledge related to heat prevention and management.