Climate Change and Coastal Cultural Heritage: Insights from Three National Parks
Casey A. 2018. Climate Change and Coastal Cultural Heritage: Insights from Three National Parks. University of Rhode Island
Current research on the climate change impacts on coastal heritage takes an ahistorical perspective, examining how these resources will be impacted by climate change moving forward. However, cultural resources hold both modern values and represent past uses of coastal landscapes. This research employs a historical perspective, examining long term relationship between people and climate or environment in a specific location, how past responses to environmental change, alteration of the environment, and other decision-making continue to affect current practices. By examining three case studies in the central Gulf Coast of Florida and Mississippi, Tidewater Virginia, and the northeastern waterfront of San Francisco, California, this research explores how federal managers’ have perceived, created, and responded to environmental change from early European settlement through the present.