Abstract
There is an urgent need for climate change-informed decision-making and adaptation actions for culturalheritage. Challenges arise in incorporating and balancing multiple considerations, including robust under-standings of climate change vulnerability, the objectives of current management paradigms, the need formeaningful engagement, the risk of maladaptation, and constrained resources to implement. We offer a con-ceptual framework and guide to integrate climate science and cultural heritage management to produce arange of adaptation actions for cultural heritage, categorized as Acclimate, Dislocate, Abandon, Protect,andTell the Story (ADAPT) approaches. The ADAPT framework is intended to aid archaeologists andother cultural heritage managers in developing and evaluating possible adaptation actions that directlyrespond to findings from climate change vulnerability assessments, critically integrating management pos-tures and constraints, and coproducing climate change adaptations with Indigenous rightsholders and com-munity stakeholders.