Winter, North Uist

CLandage Climate Resilience Project 

Building Climate Resilience through Communities, Landscapes and Cultural Heritage

Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean was a partner in the CLandage: Building Climate Resilience Through Landscapes and Cultural Heritage Project. This was led by Professor Neil MacDonald (Liverpool University), with co-investigator Dr Simon Naylor (Glasgow University) and ran from 2019 to 2023. The project had three focus areas – the Outer Hebrides, the River Eden catchment (Cumbria) and Staffordshire.

The aim of the CLandage project was to use learning from the past to better understand how communities might adapt to future changes in places and landscapes. Historically, landscapes, communities and people have coped with, and adapted to, environmental change, and continue to do so.

The project focused on how communities have improved individual and community resilience through cultural, social, technological, behavioural adaptation and modifications. The researchers looked at archaeological data, historical records and archives to look for extreme weather events in the past and how communities responded to it.

All of the three case study areas had a strong association between climate hazards and water, including flood, drought, and storms, which formed a central connecting theme for the project as a whole.

Climate Resilience Film

As part of their research, MacDonald and Naylor had investigated historical weather events recorded in school log books, which are held by Tasglann nan Eilean at various locations throughout the islands.

This film looks at what school log books, and other archive sources, can tell us about how weather has affected communities in the Outer Hebrides through the years, and how climate change could impact the islands in the future.

More information about the project is available here:

The CLandage Project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, through the UK Climate Resilience programme.

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