Everything from coastal erosion, to thawing permafrost, to flooding are putting priceless cultural sites at risk
. “In the face of accelerated climate change, the wider principle of conserving and preserving as much as possible seems increasingly unsustainable.”
Hollesen compiled a list of strategies to better protect precious archaeological sites, but it needs more political action and technical ability for their slow or non-existent rollout. One example is improving the accuracy of climate prediction models so that archeologists and cultural preservation teams know ahead of time which regions and sites are in harm’s way to better prepare and assess the damage.
“Even if archaeologists and planners in years to come are equipped with tools efficient enough to pin-point the most vulnerable sites, they will still be faced with difficult decisions: which sites should be saved, and which sites should be allowed to decay?”The paper also proposes that places that hold “outstanding value” can even be used to stress the greater urgency of climate action, referencing theOne of the positive developments that the paper cites is afrom the University of Lincoln,...
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