Study of Climate Change Impacts on Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific West Region, National Park Service, Phase II: Preliminary Vulnerability Assessments
Melnick RZ and Quiroz N. 2017. Study of Climate Change Impacts on Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific West Region, National Park Service, Phase II: Preliminary Vulnerability Assessments. Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents. Cultural Landscape Research Group, University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon
This project responds to the growing need to understand the potential effects of projected climate trends and events on cultural landscapes. The study of climate change on cultural landscapes in the Pacific West Region (PWR) of the National Park Service was conducted by the Cultural Landscape Research Group (CLRG), a unit of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon, in collaboration with the National Park Service. Working with climate scientists, archaeologists, ecologists, historians, biologists, botanists, preservationists, and designers, CLRG utilized NPS and USGS localized climate projections to assess how cultural landscapes within the PWR have the potential to be affected by climate. The project developed recommendations on future research toward the agency's goal of ensuring cultural landscapes are resilient to climate change. In Phase II of the project, the objectives is to prepare vulnerability assessments for three case study cultural landscapes based on the work in Phase I of the project that include an analysis of historic climate data and the sensitivity of the contributing landscape features and characteristics to historical and projected climate exposure. The project responds to the growing need to understand the potential effects of projected climate change trends and events on cultural landscapes.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Melnick, Robert; Quiroz, Nadja
- Date of Issue
- 2017
- Publisher
- Cultural Landscape Research Group, University of Oregon
- Units
- DEVA , NCCO , PWR , REDW
- Keywords
- adaptation, case study, climate change, climate change strategy, climate projection, climate science, climate trend, Death Valley, decision tree, drought, ecology, exposure, FEMA, fire, flood, hazard data, IPCC, NOAA, North Cascades, precipitation, Redwood, resilience, sensitivity, snow load, storms, temperature, USGS, vulnerability assessment