Introduction: heritage and climate change: the future is not the past / David C Harvey & Jim Perry
Part I. Blurring the boundaries of heritage and climate change: creative ontologies and consequences
Narratives of change on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site / Rose Ferraby
Heritage and climate change: a fatal affair / Werner Krauss
Climate and cultural heritage: an experiment with the weather memory bank / Georgina Endfield and Simon Naylor
Diverse epistemic traditions in transformative climate change research and adaptation: heritage and legacy / Andrea Déri and Janardhanan Sundaresan
"We now have a name for some of the big changes happening on our bubu [country]": the role of indigenous knowledge for the management of cultural landscapes in a changing climate: a case study of the Kuku Nyungkal people from the Queensland Wet Tropics, Australia / Leanne Cullen-Unsworth and Kirsten Maclean
Climate change and the changing nature of conservation / Stephanie Lavau
Historical chestnut cultures, climate and rural landscapes in the Apennines / Roberta Cevasco, Diego Moreno, Ross Balzaretti and Charles Watkins
Part II. Creative responses to heritage and climate change relations: processes, policies and possibilities
Heritage and climate change: organizational conflicts and conundrums / Diane Barthel-Bouchier
Heritage development and community resilience: insights for the era of climate change / Daniel N. Laven
Strategies for coping with the wicked problem of climate change: a natural heritage perspective / Paul A. Gray, Christopher J. Lemieux, Thomas J. Beechey, J. Gordon Nelson, and Daniel J. Scott
Buffer mechanisms for managing diversity and world heritage in the Cape Floral Region (South Africa) / G. Palmer, K. Maree and J. Gouza
"From dust to dust": earth buildings, process and change / Louise Cooke
Relationships between climate change and built heritage: the case of dense urban cities in Hong Kong and China / Esther, H.K. Yung and Edwin, H.W. Chan
Taking the middle path to the coast: how community collaboration can help save threatened sites / Tom Dawson
Conclusion: valuing the ever-changing past / Jim Perry & David C Harvey.