Impacts of Climate Change on Vernacular Landscapes and Cultural Heritage

Gül Aktürk

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English

Routledge
20 October 2025

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Landscape art & architecture; Museums & museology; Global warming; Conservation of buildings & building materials

Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

This book reveals the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic interventions on vernacular landscapes as a cultural heritage through an analysis of regional and urban development projects and local-level practices. Vernacular landscapes encompass customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions, and values that are innate to a particular place and time, with climate knowledge embedded alongside other environmental, cultural, and societal determinants. The cultural heritage of these places is threatened by climate and disaster risks, such as loss of land, food sources, water resources, intangible values, and displacement.

This book first critically unfolds the legacy of vernacular heritage responses to local conditions, focusing on climate, drawing on the examples of vernacular heritage sites worldwide, including India, Japan, and Mali. It then critically analyses the effects of climate and disaster risks on vernacular heritage, accelerated by spatial and local decisions and practices in a detailed study in Fındıklı, a district of Rize Province on the Black Sea coast in Turkey. It evaluates the insights, perceptions, and experiences of local people through interviews aiming to shed light on climate-resilient vernacular heritage sites.

By understanding the present challenges resulting from past decisions and actions at various scales, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the emerging field of climate change adaptation of cultural heritage studies. Bridging multiple fields, it will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students interested in cultural heritage, climate change studies, environmental studies, architectural and landscape conservation, and planning.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

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By: Gül Aktürk
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032433189
ISBN 10: 1032433183
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 20 October 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Impacts of Climate Change on Vernacular Landscapes and Cultural Heritage 2. Definitions, Concepts, and Theories 3. The Identification and Characterisation of the Primary and Comparative Case Study Areas 4. Pre-Industrial Vernacular Landscapes and Climate Responsiveness in Rize (1800–1923) and Reflections from Comparative Cases 5. Spatial Planning Challenges in the Preservation of Vernacular Landscapes: Lessons from Fındıklı (1950-1990) and Comparative Contexts 6. The Local Challenges of Preserving Vernacular Buildings: Perspectives of Building Owners (1950-2019) and Comparative Case Studies 7. Climate Change and Vernacular Landscapes: Narratives of Transformation and Resilience 8. General Conclusions Towards Integrated Climate and Disaster Risk Management for Vernacular Heritage Sites

Gül Aktürk is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University. Her research interest lies in the intersection of climate change and cultural heritage. Her research also investigates climate resilience of cultural heritage, vernacular heritage, cultural landscapes, climate displacement, intangible cultural heritage, land-use changes, critical heritage studies, and archaeological heritage management. She is an architect and studied MSc Architectural Conservation at Edinburgh University between 2012 and 2013. She then worked in several architectural restoration projects and archaeological excavations for over five years. She completed her PhD with the title of ""Climate Change and the Resilience of Collective Memories"" in the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft in January 2023. She received VAG Publication Grant to publish her PhD thesis as a book. Before completing her PhD, she started her postdoctoral research on I-tree 2.0 NL project in the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at TU Delft.