Reducing landscape climate vulnerability through local coevolution processes

Abstract

The paper explores the hypothesis that reactivating localized processes of co-evolutionary interaction between humans and the environment is crucial for reducing the vulnerability to climate change of architectural heritage, intended in a broad sense as ‘built cultural environment’, and also as ‘landscape’. It focuses on two case studies, Xochimilco in Mexico and Tamera in Portugal, to identify and reinterpret those kind of Nature-based Solutions able to create, maintain, and restore entire socio-ecological systems, by simultaneously providing environmental, social, and economic benefits, ultimately enhancing landscape resilience through integrated interventions based on local resources.