Coastal heritage in touristic regional identity narratives: a comparison between the Norwegian region Sørlandet and the Dutch Wadden Sea area

Egberts, Linde; Hundstad, Dag

doi:10.1080/13527258.2019.1570310

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“…9 Indeed, the imagination of the Wadden Sea, and coasts and islands globally, is one that is fundamentally linked to, and a product of, modernity. Modern industrialisation saw centres of productivity move away from coastal regions, and this shift is what allows for and has led to an imagination of them as untouched by modern progress (Egberts andHundstad 1075-1076). Nonetheless, the instrumentalisation of the Wadden Sea as a site outside of modernity is an important feature of its imagination; the real Wadden Sea is always in interaction (and sometimes in tension) with its fictional alter egos.…”

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Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea

Ritson

Smalen

2021

Maritime Studies

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This contribution explores the potential of the Wadden Sea for the imagination of the Anthropocene. The concept of the Anthropocene represents a challenge to the cultural imagination, as it draws together deep, geological time, recent and current events, and long futures; the geographical and generational implications of justice; and the profound entanglement of human progress with ecological decline. We argue that the cultural landscape of the Wadden Sea is a space in which these paradoxes and connections are made visible and material. Literary and artistic works engaged with the Wadden Sea display a critical awareness of Anthropocene entanglements: in our analysis, we explore visual and textual representations of the Wadden Sea and show how it serves as a site for the imagination of the past and future of our planet.

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Section: Rewriting and Rereading The Human History Of The Enlightenmentmentioning

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Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea

Ritson

Smalen

2021

Maritime Studies

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“…In the late 1800s and early 1900s, New Englanders living in more urban areas such as Boston began to increasingly romanticize the sea and seek out coasts for respite and recreation [70]. This was a global trend during this time, where, "under the tourist gaze, coasts became regarded as places where human life was simple and picturesque, turning them into places of heritage and generating new forms of income, i.e., tourism" [71]. Coastal New Hampshire with its increasingly "natural" feel from forest regrowth and its "historic" maritime charm in the remnant buildings from the previous centuries, began seeing such coastal tourism and this trend continued throughout the 1900s.…”

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Harnessing Remote Sensing Derived Sea Level Rise Models to Assess Cultural Heritage Vulnerability: A Case Study from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Howey

2020

Sustainability

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Climate change threatens cultural heritage across the globe. Of its varied impacts, sea level rise is critically pressing because of the long relationship between humans and the ocean. Numerous cultural heritage sites lie on the world’s fragile coasts. Identifying cultural heritage sites at risk is an urgent need, but archaeological research programs do not always have the resources available to conduct large-scale cultural heritage vulnerability assessments. Given sea level rise poses myriad pressing issues, entities around the globe are developing sea level rise models for various management purposes (ecology, hydrology, real estate, etc.). These remote sensing-derived sea level rise models can be harnessed by archaeologists to assess cultural heritage site vulnerability. Here, such an analysis is realized for a northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal area experiencing relative sea level rise and with robust cultural heritage, including economically significant maritime heritage tourism. Combining archaeological and historic geospatial databases with LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)-derived relative sea level rise models illuminates coastal New Hampshire’s cultural heritage vulnerability. This is informative for risk monitoring, mitigation, and preservation planning, especially for cultural heritage tourism. The analysis also raises the need for discussions around what kind and whose heritage gets priority in planning for future sea level rise impacts.

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“…The second role that landscapes can play is that of "wilderness" that often is preserved in natural heritage reserves. Following this idea, nature is seen as opposite to the cultural, which means that human presence and interference (past or present) should be minimized for the sake of protection of the "natural" (Egberts and Hundstad 2019;Spirn 1997).…”

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Raise the dikes and re-use the past? Climate adaptation planning as heritage practice

Egberts

Riesto

2021

Maritime Studies

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Across Europe, coasts are drastically being changed to adapt to relative sea level rise, which will influence coastal landscapes and heritage in many ways. In this paper, we introduce a methodological starting point for analysing the ways in which landscape architects and spatial planners engage with coastal landscapes and coastal heritage in the context of current climate adaptation projects. We test these methodologies by applying them to the Marconi dike strengthening project in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. This city’s dike fortification is an interesting case, as it offers many opportunities for re-designing heritage. The city borders the Wadden Sea area, a tidal mudflat area protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its natural and geological heritage values. The area also consists of a rich cultural landscape, which is overlooked in the public image and in local policy. We conclude that landscape architects and planners should strengthen not only the dike, but also the interpretation of the past that dominates policy and political debates in the area. We also find that the existing heritage production model of Ashworth and Tunbridge can provide some useful structure for understanding and contextualizing spatial planning for climate change as a way of doing heritage.

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Coastal heritage in touristic regional identity narratives: a comparison between the Norwegian region Sørlandet and the Dutch Wadden Sea area

Cited by 25 publications

References 32 publications

Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea

Imagining the Anthropocene with the Wadden Sea

Harnessing Remote Sensing Derived Sea Level Rise Models to Assess Cultural Heritage Vulnerability: A Case Study from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Raise the dikes and re-use the past? Climate adaptation planning as heritage practice

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