From Climate Crisis to Climate Action: Exploring the Entanglement of Changing Heritage in the Anthropocene

Morel, Hana; Ammerveld, J. Oud

doi:10.1080/17567505.2021.1957261

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Increasing Climate Change Resilience by Adapting 20th Century Built Heritage

2023

Heritage Education for Climate Action

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Increasing Climate Change Resilience by Adapting 20th Century Built Heritage

2023

Heritage Education for Climate Action

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Capacity of the U.S. federal system for cultural heritage to meet challenges of climate change

Rockman

2024

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The U.S. federal government is unbalanced in its capacity to recognize, manage, and engage cultural heritage as part of its response to climate change. Legislation from the 1906 Antiquities Act to Executive Order (EO) 13990 signed in 2021 has set an overarching approach in which heritage is understood to be primarily tangible places and things that should be conserved, foremost through monument and park boundaries and significance designations. Such conservation, however, does not protect heritage from impacts of climate change and how to manage these components of heritage is nearly invisible in recent climate-focused publications of the two agencies assigned by legislation to serve as leads for cultural heritage in the U.S. government. Yet further, the long-standing tangible approach to heritage does not incorporate emerging understandings of its intangible components and the diverse connections of all forms of heritage to place, meaning, identity, and global change goals of sustainability and equity. In contrast, analysis of 27 federal agency climate adaptation plans prepared in response to 2021 EO 14008 shows that multiple agencies not assigned lead roles for heritage recognize a range of responsibilities that include heritage as part of climate adaptation, mitigation, equity, and coordination with Indigenous communities. This paper explores U.S. heritage legislative history, the definition it helped create for heritage, more recent understandings of heritage, and relationships of these to climate change and how these are represented in climate work and plans across U.S. federal agencies. On these bases, recommendations are provided for research and policy steps.

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Climate Change and the Historic Environment

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Dawson

2021

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice

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From Climate Crisis to Climate Action: Exploring the Entanglement of Changing Heritage in the Anthropocene

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References 59 publications

Increasing Climate Change Resilience by Adapting 20th Century Built Heritage

Increasing Climate Change Resilience by Adapting 20th Century Built Heritage

Capacity of the U.S. federal system for cultural heritage to meet challenges of climate change

Climate Change and the Historic Environment

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