Heritage Resilience

Climate change, disaster risks and sustainability

The impacts of climate change and other human–made risks are potentially devastating to heritage values—buildings damaged, artefacts and archives destroyed, landscapes declining or lost. Making heritage places sustainable and resilient to climate change and disaster risks is integral to best practice heritage management and conservation.

We assess a place’s heritage values, identify a wide range of risks, and develop policies and guidelines to manage places for a sustainable future.

We work to ensure heritage resilience across all environments, including built heritage, landscape heritage, historical and First Nations cultural landscapes and archaeology. We have broad local, regional, national and international experience and technical knowledge in climate heritage management, disaster risk management strategies, and sustainability.

We deliver heritage resilience planning and management through:

proactively integrating best practice heritage management and conservation with evidence-based consideration of climate change, disaster risks and sustainability;
addressing heritage management through a sustainability lens – environmental and cultural – by managing consumption and waste, operational and embodied energy materials, and social, economic and cultural heritage impacts;
managing change at heritage places to respond to climate issues, sustainability goals, building upgrades to satisfy building codes and standards; and
managing risks to heritage places, including archaeological places and sites, buildings and structures, cultural landscapes, community values and intangible values.