This project brings into focus the overlooked potential of cultural and traditional land-care knowledges and practices for sustainable climate adaptation in areas under intersecting pressures. Land-care relates to human populations' affective attachment and commitment to the environment through material and vital action (de la Bellacasa 2011), as a part of their cultural relation to ‘nature'. In this way, land-care practices approach climate adaptation in a way that holistically and simultaneously pays attention to multiple other environmental and social 'matters of care', which are summarised here under the concept of sustainability. Sustainable adaptation then is adaptation that also considers the multiple cоbenefits (or trade-offs) that come with adapting culturally-mediated social-environmental relations

Prosject leader is Siri Veland, NORCE