Moving beyond the hard boundary

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

Renes

2020

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Climate change poses worldwide challenges, perhaps most in coastal areas. Governments on different scales respond with planning and policy measures, many with drastic impact. In this paper we assess the role of cultural heritage in planning for climate change on the former island Goeree-Overflakkee in the Netherlands. We do so by exploring the theoretical discourse on the nexus of climate change and heritage discourses and relating these to an analysis of mitigation and adaptation measures on the island of Goeree-Overflakkee in the Dutch river delta. It appears that the scale and political urgency of climate change induces involvement of many different governments, resulting in an inconsistent integration of cultural heritage in these plans and policies. These outcomes demonstrate that in order to integrate heritage in climate adaptation and mitigation planning, governments cannot rely on established planning traditions for other spatial challenges.

Section: The Heritage and Climate Nexus In Academic Discoursementioning

confidence: 97%

A Local Heritage and Climate Nexus: The Past in Planning for Climate Change on the Dutch island of Goeree‐overflakkee

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

Renes

2020

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“…This means that the area outside the dike is protected by national policy and is internationally recognized for its natural heritage values. The dike itself forms a sharp division between a "natural landscape" and a "cultural landscape" that needs protection against nature's potentially threatening tides (Egberts 2019).…”

Section: Case Study Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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.

“…This leads to many unwanted side effects for both, as important values remain out of sight in decision-making processes and protection schemes. Some argue that the making the holistic concept landscape central to heritage management could contribute to overcoming divides, as it can include natural and cultural values, as well as a strong political and social dimension (Krauss 2015;Egberts 2018).…”

Section: Cultural Heritage and Ecologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Regional identity narratives are often shaped in similar ways, although levels of institutionalization vary from one region to another (Paasi 1986). The process of selection from the past often follows a distinct pattern, in which it is decided what parts of the past are useful for regional and national identity construction and which should be left out (Egberts 2017).…”

Section: Conclusion: Marginalized Pasts In Heritage Preservation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Heritage in European Coastal Landscapes—Four Reasons for Inter-regional Knowledge Exchange

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage

2019

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Heritage in coastal landscapes confronts preservationists, spatial planners, policymakers, and politicians with distinctive challenges. Coastal landscapes in all their varieties share common features because humans have interacted in similar ways with their environments on the edge of land and sea, including coastal defence, fishing, shipping, mussel farming, harvesting salt, swimming, boating, and using the beach as a tourist attraction. Coastal communities and societies are historically interconnected with each other and are more like each other than their respective inland societies in language, customs, ways of life, ways of building, and heritage. Moreover, they have a distinctive cultural and spiritual relationship with the sea. Cultural heritage and its management in coastal landscapes can vary greatly from one area to the next, but throughout Europe several key issues and challenges recur. In this chapter, I argue that coastal regions in Europe could manage their heritage resources more efficiently by exchanging expertise and experience. I address the importance of taking each site's regional, spatial, and historical characteristics into account, while not losing sight of their many contemporary economic, social, cultural, and ecological challenges. I address four of these issues: interconnected cultural frontiers; the common challenges of coast-specific heritage; the threats and opportunities of coastal tourism; and the effects of ecological changes on cultural heritage. Each of them is illustrated by an example from one of the European coastal regions. Finally, I consider the roles that coastal heritage plays in the historiography of regions and nations, and how that affects the ways in which the coastal past is remembered, preserved and redeveloped.