Preserving coastal environments requires an integrated natural and cultural resources management approach.

ABSTRACT: Integration of natural and cultural resource management is urgently needed to combat the effects of climate change. Scientists must contend with how human-induced climate change and rapid population expansion are fundamentally reworking densely inhabited coastal zones. We propose that a merger of archaeology, environmental science, and land management policy-different yet intertwined domains-is needed to address dramatic losses to biocultural resources that comprise coupled cultural-natural systems. We demonstrate the urgency of such approaches through analyses of coastal archaeological regions within the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts where sea level rise is a primary threat, and we extend our findings globally through an assessment of primary risk factors and forecasts for archaeological

SUBMITTER: Mehta JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969151 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature