Reviews
This is an excellent, readable volume intersecting public archaeology, climate change and cultural heritage management. I found this volume to be very readable, informative and enjoyable. I greatly appreciated the uniqueness of the intersection of public archaeology, cultural-heritage management and climate change. The editors have done an excellent job assembling the papers, and while several contributions have less of a focus on public archaeology they remain relevant within the volume's other two themes and give a greater global perspective. I agree with the editors that 'this volume will make a key reference for those involved in climate change and heritage studies'. I go further in saying that the relevance of this volume to cultural-heritage managers and public archaeologists will only increase in the future., Drawing together practical case studies, the volumes provides a critical, self-reflective examination of the mitigation tools available to archaeologists at the intersection of climate change studies, public archaeology, and cultural heritage management and their effectiveness under varying regulatory, logistical, funding, social, and community circumstances. Archaeologists grappling with ways to manage climate change effects in their own field research will find much of the instructional value in this book's 18 chapters., A new publication of Oxbow Books pays attention to various recent projects worldwide, presenting 18 papers on the subject of public archaeology. Some projects focus on UNESCO World Heritage, while others focus on small-scale sites, with mainly local or regional attention. The book is an interesting and inspiring source of projects worldwide, with its focus on Europe. A handy source of information in 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH)., What a relief it is to read a hopeful book about climate change response; and even more so when it shows the exciting ways cultural heritage professionals are using science and the humanities to build new knowledge for managing heritage resources around the globe... Public Archaeology& Climate Change is a very important contribution to our field because it offers practitioners encouragement and inspiration as they race climate change to identify, record, and understand impacts on cultural heritage sites, and then to a respond to those threats and impacts., While archaeological heritage is an underutilized field in awareness-raising about our changing climate, this edition demonstrates how it can spur engagement in diverse communities and potentially change national and international policy addressing contemporary climate change. This book will be useful to archaeologists, heritage practitioners, or even policy-makers working on the preservation and protection of any heritage site impacted by climate change., What a relief it is to read a hopeful book about climate change response; and even more so when it shows the exciting ways cultural heritage professionals are using science and the humanities to build new knowledge for managing heritage resources around the globe...Public Archaeology& Climate Changeis a very important contribution to our field because it offers practitioners encouragement and inspiration as they race climate change to identify, record, and understand impacts on cultural heritage sites, and then to a respond to those threats and impacts., Through the case studies which make up the bulk of this volume, this publication does an admirable job sharing the experiences and best practices of a wide variety of projects working at different geographic as well as applied scales. Not overly concerned with theoretical issues, the authors make clear that this volume is meant to showcase activities from around the world relevant to this problem for the purpose of knowledge exchange., This important volume highlights the threats facing cultural heritage sites and offers strategies for their preservation addressed through public archaeology programs... Summing up: Recommended., ...an urgent wake-up call about the significant, accelerating, and widespread threats that climate change poses for archaeological sites and other cultural heritage resources on a global scale [...] essential reading for all archaeologists.
Table of Content
Introduction. Courtney Nimura, Tom Dawson, Elías López-Romero & Marie-Yvane DaireThe growing vulnerability of World Heritage to rapid climate change and the challenge of managing for an uncertain future. Adam MarkhamA central role for communities: limate change and coastal heritage management in Scotland. Tom DawsonImproving management responses to coastal change: utilising sources from archaeology, maps, charts, photographs and art. Garry Momber, Lauren Tidbury, Julie Satchell & Brandon Mason Community recording and monitoring of vulnerable sites in England. Eliott Wragg, Nathalie Cohen, Gustav Milne, Stephanie Ostrich & Courtney NimuraChallenged by an archaeologically educated public in Wales. Claudine Gerrard The men and women behind the MASC Project (Monitoring the Archaeology of Sligo's Coastline): engaging local stakeholder groups to monitor vulnerable coastal archaeology in Ireland. James Bonsall & Sam Moore 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 & Alejandro Güimil-FariñaCoastal erosion and public archaeology in Brittany, France: recent experiences from the Alert project. Pau Olmos Benlloch, Elías López-Romero & Marie-Yvane DaireClimate change and the preservation of archaeological sites in Greenland. Jørgen Hollesen, Henning Matthiesen, Christian Koch Madsen, Bo Albrechtsen, Aart Kroon & Bo ElberlingGufuskálar: a medieval commercial fishing station in Western Iceland. Lilja Pálsdóttir & Frank J. FeeleyEvery place has a climate story: finding and sharing climate change stories with cultural heritage. Marcy Rockman & Jakob MaaseRacing 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 Pedesen-Guzman & Jere H. LippsThreatened heritage and community archaeology on Alaska's North Slope. Anne M. JensenCultural 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 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 & Eugenia Villarmarzo Australian Indigenous rangers managing the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage sites. Bethune Carmichael, Sally Brockwell, Greg Wilson, Ivan Namarnyilk, Sean Nadji, Jacqueline Cahill & Deanne Bird. With contributions by Victor Rostron, Patricia Gibson, Jonathon Nadji, Jeffrey Lee, Fred Hunter, Jimmy Marimowa, Natasha Nadji & Kadeem MayPerception of the relationship between climate change and traditional wooden heritage in Japan. Peter Brimblecombe & Mikiko Hayashi
