The Future of Heritage as Climates Change
Climate change is a critical issue for heritage studies. Sites, objects and ways of life are all coming under threat, requiring alternative management or requiring specific climate change adaptation.
Relatively little attention has been paid to the critical intersections between heritage and climate change. The Future of Heritage as Climates Change frames the intellectual context within which heritage and climate change can be examined, presenting cases and sub-fields in which the heritageclimate change nexus is being examined, and provides synthetic analyses through five overarching themes:
- The heritage of change among coastal communities: liminality and the politics of engagement
- Dwelling materials: processes and possibilities
- Environmental heritage: meanings of the past and prospects for the future
- Blurring the boundaries of nature and culture: the politics of anticipation
- Climate change and heritage practice: adaptation and resilience
The Future of Heritage as Climates Change provides scholars, managers, policy makers and students with a much-needed examination of heritage and climate change to help make critical decisions in the next several decades.
David C. Harvey is Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He has worked within the field of heritage studies for a number of years, and his research has contributed to some key heritage debates.
Jim Perry is HT Morse Distinguished University Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA. His current research focuses on climate change adaptation in UNESCO World Heritage Sites and on capacity development supporting an ecosystem management approach to water resources.
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Series Editors: William Logan and Laurajane Smith
Forthcoming in 2015:
Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage
Christoph Antons and William Logan
Also in the series:
Heritage and Globalisation
Sophia Labadi and Colin Long
Intangible Heritage
Laurajane Smith and Natsuko Akagawa
Places of Pain and Shame
William Logan and Keir Reeves
Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights
Michele Langfield, William Logan and Mirad Nic Craith
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes
Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackel and Gary Campbell
The Heritage of War
Martin Gegner and Bart Ziino
Managing Cultural Landscapes
Ken Taylor and Jane L. Lennon
Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage
Kate Darian-Smith and Carla Pascoe
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Contents
DAVID C. HARVEY AND JIM PERRY
ROSE FERRABY
WERNER KRAU
GEORGINA ENDFIELD AND SIMON NAYLOR
ANDREA DRI AND JANARDHANAN SUNDARESAN
LEANNE CULLEN-UNSWORTH AND KIRSTEN MACLEAN
STEPHANIE LAVAU
ROBERTA CEVASCO, DIEGO MORENO, ROSS BALZARETTI AND CHARLES WATKINS
DIANE BARTHEL-BOUCHIER
DANIEL N. LAVEN
PAUL A. GRAY, CHRISTOPHER J. LEMIEUX, THOMAS J. BEECHEY,J. GORDON NELSON AND DANIEL J. SCOTT
GUY PALMER, KERRY MAREE AND JENIFER GOUZA
LOUISE COOKE
ESTHER H. K. YUNG AND EDWIN H. W. CHAN
TOM DAWSON
JIM PERRY AND DAVID C. HARVEY
Ross Balzaretti is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham (UK). He has published widely in the field of Italian history (including articles in History , Landscape History , Rural History and Journal of Rural Studies ) and written several books, most recently Dark Age Liguria: Regional Power and Local Identity, c. 4001020 (Bloomsbury, 2013) and (edited with Mark Pearce and Charles Watkins) Ligurian Landscapes (Accordia, 2004). He edited Gender & History between 2004 and 2010.
Diane Barthel-Bouchier is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University (USA). Her interest in cultural heritage began in the early 1980s when she analysed the impact of heritage conservation proposals on a local Midwestern community with a distinctive communal past ( Amana: From Pietist Sect to American Community , University of Nebraska Press, 1984). She then broadened her scope to a comparative cross-cultural analysis of conservation themes in the United States and the United Kingdom ( Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historical Identity , Rutgers University Press, 1996). Most recently, she has researched the response of what she calls the global heritage community to the challenges of climate change and achieving sustainability ( Cultural Heritage and the Challenge of Sustainability , Left Coast Press, 2013).
Thomas J. Beechey served as the senior conservation biologist with Ontario Parks from 1970 to 2001 where he conducted ecological surveys, systems planning, management functions and policy development for provincial parks and protected areas. Since retiring from public service, he has remained very active in many initiatives on protected areas and biodiversity conservation including projects on climate change and protected areas and northern protected areas in Canada. He has served on national and regional conservation committees of the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) and has served two terms on NCCs Ontario Board. He continues to work as an Associate Director of the Canadian Council on Ecological Areas, which he helped to establish in 1982. With more than 100 technical reports and publications, his leisure interests include nature photography and natural gardening.
Roberta Cevasco is an Adjunct Professor at Universit del Piemonte Orientale (Italy). Her main research themes include historical ecology, environmental geography, geography of rural landscapes and local productions. She has worked on many international and national research projects applied to the management and enhancement of rural-environmental heritage, developing a historical approach to geographical problems. Her book Memoria Verde (2007) is devoted to discover the memory hidden in the vegetation cover.