CULTCOAST – North Norwegian Heritage at Risk

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Climate change, with increasing temperatures, differing precipitation, decreasing permafrost, more frequent and severe storms, sea level rise, reduction of sea ice, floods, avalanches and changing vegetation. These changes increase the risks of geo-hazards that threaten coastal heritage sites, environments and landscapes. The Arctic areas are particularly sensitive because they suffer more from combined threats.

The CULTCOAST project focuses on the individual and combined impacts of climate change induced geo-hazards and pressure from tourism and development in northern Norway, using Arctic and sub-Arctic sites as basis for future modelling that will have global use. Based on existing methodologies for mapping and documentation, strategies for mitigation and conservation will be developed to protect these sites in the decades towards the year 2100. Our interdisciplinary approach combines archaeology, architecture, geography, quaternary geology and climate science, and an attempt is made to actively involve citizen science in site monitoring.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Methods for Monitoring Heritage at Risk Sites in a Rapidly Changing Environment   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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