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

ABSTRACT: 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

SUBMITTER: Rockman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009616 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature