Research Project on Climate Change and Archives: Final Report for Mellon Foundation, Public Knowledge program

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Memory Rising has been engaged by the Public Knowledge program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to examine the impacts of climate change on archives. This final report is the culmination of an eighteen-month research project (May 2023-October 2024). This project focused on three areas of concern for climate change adaptation and archives. Phase 1 focused on People. Phase 2 focused on Infrastructure. Phase 3 focused on Collections. This report contains Memory Rising’s short-term and long-term recommendations informed by the research, along with summaries of the major findings from each research phase. 

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