Case Studies on Community Conversations at Risk from South Florida

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In this presentation, we examine community conversations on heritage at risk at three separate locations in South Florida. In Jupiter, Florida, we reflect on community conversations taking place on a federally managed site with significant local importance. At the Town of Fort Myers Beach, managed by the municipality, we reflect on challenges expressed by land managers in an area badly impacted by Hurricane Ian in 2022. At the Edison and Ford Winter Estates, we summarize discussions from community leaders and other stakeholders at a privately managed site viewed as the premier tourist attraction in the area. The authors draw upon these varying case studies to illustrate management challenges and successes in dynamic areas heavily influenced by climate change.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Dialogue as Defense: Addressing Preservation Threats with Community Conversations on Heritage at Risk (CCHAR)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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