Public archaeology and climate change / edited by Tom Dawson [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawson, Tom, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

Environmental archaeology.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Oxbow Books, 2017.

Summary:

Public Archaeology and Climate Change' promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ 'citizen science' initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them. Increasingly archaeologists are embracing practices learned from the natural heritage sector, which has long worked with the public in practical recording projects. By involving the public in projects and making data accessible, archaeologists are engaging society in the debate on threatened heritage and in wider discussions on climate change. Community involvement also underpins wider climate change adaptation strategies, and citizen science projects can help to influence and inform policy makers. Developing threats to heritage are being experienced around the world, and as this collection of papers will show, new partnerships and collaborations are crossing national boundaries. With examples from across the globe, this selection of 18 papers detail the scale of the problem through a variety of case studies. Together they demonstrate how heritage professionals, working in diverse environments and with distinctive archaeology, are engaging with the public to raise awareness of this threatened resource. Contributors examine differing responses and proactive methodologies for the protection, preservation and recording of sites at risk from natural forces and demonstrate how new approaches can better engage people with sites that are under increasing threat of destruction, thus contributing to the resilience of our shared heritage.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. Public archaeology and climate change: reflections and considerations: Courtney Nimura, Tom Dawson, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire

Chapter 2. The growing vulnerability of World Heritage to rapid climate change and the challenge of managing for an uncertain future: Adam Markham

Chapter 3. A central role for communities: climate change and coastal heritage management in Scotland: Tom Dawson, Joanna Hambly and Ellie Graham

Chapter 4. Improving management responses to coastal change: utilising sources from archaeology, maps, charts, photographs and art: Garry Momber, Lauren Tidbury, Julie Satchell and Brandon Mason

Chapter 5. Community recording and monitoring of vulnerable sites in England: Eliott Wragg, Nathalie Cohen, Gustav Milne, Stephanie Ostrich and Courtney Nimura

Chapter 6. Challenged by an archaeologically educated public in Wales: Claudine Gerrard

Chapter 7. The MASC Project (Monitoring the Archaeology of Sligo's Coastline): engaging local stakeholder groups to monitor vulnerable coastal archaeology in Ireland: James Bonsall and Sam Moore

Chapter 8. Recovering information from eroding and destroyed coastal archaeological sites: a crowdsourcing initiative in Northwest Iberia: Elías López-Romero, Xosé Ignacio Vilaseco Vázquez, Patricia Mañana-Borrazás and Alejandro Güimil-Fariña

Chapter 9. Coastal erosion and public archaeology in Brittany, France: recent experiences from the ALeRT project: Pau Olmos Benlloch, Elías López-Romero and Marie-Yvane Daire

Chapter 10. Climate change and the preservation of archaeological sites in Greenland: Jørgen Hollesen, Henning Matthiesen, Christian Koch Madsen, Bo Albrechtsen, Aart Kroon and Bo Elberling.

Chapter 11. Gufuskálar: a medieval commercial fishing station in Western Iceland: Lilja Pálsdóttir and Frank J. Feeley

Chapter 12. Every place has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage: Marcy Rockman and Jakob Maase

Chapter 13. Racing against time: preparing for the impacts of climate change on California's archaeological resources: Michael Newland, Sandra Pentney, Reno Franklin, Nick Tipon, Suntayea Steinruck, Jeannine Pedersen-Guzman and Jere H. Lipps

Chapter 14. Threatened heritage and community archaeology on Alaska's North Slope: Anne M. Jensen

Chapter 15. Cultural heritage under threat: the effects of climate change on the small island of Barbuda, Lesser Antilles: Sophia Perdikaris, Allison Bain, Rebecca Boger, Sandrine Grouard, Anne-Marie Faucher, Vincent Rousseau, Reaksha Persaud, Stéphane Noël, Matthew Brown and July Medina-Triana

Chapter 16. Archaeological heritage on the Atlantic coast of Uruguay: heritage policies and challenges for its management in coastal protected areas: Camila Gianotti, Andrés Gascue, Laura del Puerto, Hugo Inda and Eugenia Villarmarzo

Chapter 17. Australian Indigenous rangers managing the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage sites: Bethune Carmichael, Greg Wilson, Ivan Namarnyilk, Sean Nadji, Jacqueline Cahill, Sally Brockwell and Deanne Bird

Chapter 18. Perception of the relationship between climate change and traditional wooden heritage in Japan: Peter Brimblecombe and Mikiko Hayashi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 10, 2018).

ISBN:

9781785707056

1785707051

9781785707070

1785707078

OCLC:

1015215562