Climate Change and Human Response: Strategies for Saving our Cultural Heritage
Dr. David G. Anderson, University of Tennessee
Climate change is erasing the record of past as well as present human culture at an alarming rate. Major inter-related challenges facing all those responsible for saving our shared cultural heritage include (1) determining what will be lost and deciding what will be saved; and (2) developing diverse and iterative approaches to our response, including consideration for collaboration among multiple stakeholders, capacity building/personnel training and involvement, cultural and research considerations, information management and curation, fieldwork and analysis efforts, and synthesis and reporting/interpretive efforts. A proactive approach emphasizing long term strategies and solutions, rather than short term and ad hoc responses, is what is needed.
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