Community Conversations About Heritage At Risk (CCHAR): A Novel Approach To Engaging The Community In Climate Heritage Discussions

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the “Learning from Loss: Transformation in the Historic Environment in the Face of Climate Change” program in 2018, the international project team under the direction of Tom Dawson and Joanna Hambly developed a list of six questions that was posed to the public and to other heritage professionals. Sarah Miller participated in the program, and brought the questions back to Florida to compare qualitative responses with those collected in Scotland. Since that time staff from the Florida Public Archaeology Network undertook 11 additional Community Conversations about Heritage at Risk (CCHAR). This paper will look at the methods of collecting qualitative data from focus groups, how the questions developed or changed over time, how the program adjusted to Florida audiences, and initial takeaways from the first three programs in Scotland and then in Florida.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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