Introduction - Heritage and climate change: the future is not the past, David C Harvey & Jim Perry Part 1: Blurring the Boundaries of Heritage and Climate Change: Creative Ontologies and Consequences Narratives of change on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage SiteRose Ferraby Heritage and climate change: a fatal affairWerner 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 LegacyAndrea 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, AustraliaLeanne Cullen-Unsworth and Kirsten Maclean Climate change and the changing nature of conservationStephanie Lavau Historical chestnut cultures, climate and rural landscapes in the Apennines Roberta Cevasco, Diego Moreno, Ross Balzaretti and Charles Watkins Part 2: Creative Responses to Heritage and Climate Change Relations: Processes, Policies and Possibilities Heritage and climate change: organizational conflicts and conundrumsDiane 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 PerspectivePaul 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 ChinaEsther, H.K. Yung and Edwin, H.W. Chan Taking the middle path to the coast: how community collaboration can help save threatened sitesTom Dawson Conclusion - Valuing the ever-changing pastJim Perry & David C Harvey