
LUC assessing climate change risk to Fingal’s cultural heritage
LUC has been commissioned to assess the risk to Fingal’s cultural heritage posed by natural hazards and climate change.
Working on behalf of Fingal County Council, alongside TOBIN and AMS, the study is based on a methodology developed by Historic Environment Scotland.
Our GIS and Historic Environment teams are assessing the likelihood and severity of risk to cultural heritage assets from six categories of natural hazards:
- fluvial flooding
- pluvial flooding
- groundwater flooding
- coastal flooding
- coastal erosion
- land instability
More detailed assessment, including a review of climate change impacts, will be undertaken for four heritage assets.
This is the first project of this kind undertaken by a Council in the Republic of Ireland. We hope this pilot project leads to a better understanding of environmental risk datasets required for this type of assessment and allows the rollout of the developed method to other Councils in the Republic of Ireland.
The project builds on our similar work undertaken for Historic England, which explored risk levels posed by climate change on designated coastal heritage assets along the coast of England.
Learn more about Historic Environment at LUC.
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