Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change
Today Sarah attended a workshop offered by FEMA on Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigation Hazards. Why would an archaeologist be attending this training? We do a lot of education and outreach with the community, including our Heritage Monitoring Scout (HMS Florida) workshops and multiple presentations for public libraries and civic groups. We front end these outreach programs with the science of climate change and identifying the problems climate change brings to heritage sites. What we don't do enough is focus on next steps. We ask participants in our Community Conversations about Heritage at Risk workshops what coastal heritage will be lost, and where roles and responsibilities lie. But our programs are as yet weak in discussing community resilience and what green options there may be in the areas where our program participants live. Also, I took the workshop to remind emergency management officers, health and safty staff, and planners that heritage is an importance part of all c