Underwater Heritage Conservation and Climate Change in Canada

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

UNESCO's Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) highlights the need for collaborative approaches for ocean conservation and sustainability. Research in marine sciences should then include both cultural and natural resources. Underwater archaeology is therefore a vector of change and development for multidisciplinary projects. Given the impacts of climate change, submerged heritage is fragile and threatened on a short, medium and long term, and remains scarcely documented in Canada. Measures are therefore necessary to protect knowledge on maritime and underwater heritage, both tangible and intangible, and understand the current and future impacts on the conservation and degradation of these unique non-renewable resources. Underwater Archaeology Team projects showcase how, within the dual mandate of Parks Canada to preserve nature and culture, underwater archaeology contributes to the understanding of our relationship with the oceans and the need for adaptation to climate change.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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