Cultural landscapes serve as living testaments to the rich history and traditions that have illustrated an intricate interplay between communities and the natural environment. This interplay not only defines a region’s cultural identity but also forms hubs of sustenance, trade, ecotourism, and cultural activities continuing to foster the development and livelihood of the communities within these landscapes. We seek to understand what changes are acceptable to the community and to what extent their cultural relational values are maintained.

1. Identify gaps in how resilience is defined and measured for cultural landscapes in existing resilience frameworks.

2. Determine the local community’s contexts and meanings associated with the cultural relational values of their cultural landscapes and the resilience thereof using community-based ethnographic and participatory cultural mapping approaches.

3. Develop composite metrics merging qualitative and quantitative data obtained from ethnographic data sets as well as environmental climate data.

To date (current/in progress)

• The project is currently in its ethnographic fieldwork phase to identify the cultural and ecosystem resources of the case study location.