Revitalising Intangible Environmental Heritage to co-create Sustainability

Environments and geographies have shaped humanity – from specific cultures and societal formations to food habits and music – in different parts of the world. This intangible heritage has sustained the human civilisation for thousands of years till we embarked on the Anthropocene, which threatens to alter the sustainable, circular processes within the earth systems into an unsustainable, linear one. It underscores a critical need to reinvigorate and rejuvenate the intangible environmental heritage and uncover the knowledge nestled within to co-produce a new, sustainable environmental governance regime along with science and technology. It is not about just preserving and conserving the socioecological heritage but about informing the science and technology so that it can be more contextual and effective. Whether it is climate change and its science, species extinction and its drivers, ecosystem degradation and the concomitant socio-spatial disjunctions, demands developing socially and culturally contextual technological artefacts. Widespread research, knowledge curation and management are needed to revitalise the intangible environmental heritage and co-create a new environmental heritage that is specific to places, peoples, their cultures and built on socio-technological hybrids.

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