Harnessing Remote Sensing Derived Sea Level Rise Models to Assess Cultural Heritage Vulnerability: A Case Study from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
Harnessing Remote Sensing Derived Sea Level Rise Models to Assess Cultural Heritage Vulnerability: A Case Study from the Northwest Atlantic Ocean
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10.3390/su12229429
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发表时间：
2020-11
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3.9
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Meghan C. L. Howey
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作者：
Meghan C. L. Howey
气候变化威胁着地球仪的文化遗产。在其各种影响中，海平面上升是至关重要的，因为人类与海洋之间的长期关系。世界脆弱的海岸线上有许多文化遗址。确定处于危险中的文化遗产遗址是一项迫切需要，但考古研究计划并不总是有资源进行大规模的文化遗产脆弱性评估。鉴于海平面上升带来了无数紧迫问题，地球仪的实体正在开发用于各种管理目的（生态学、水文学、真实的房地产等）的海平面上升模型。考古学家可以利用这些遥感得出的海平面上升模型来评估文化遗产地的脆弱性。在这里，这样的分析是实现西北大西洋沿海地区经历相对海平面上升和强大的文化遗产，包括经济意义重大的海洋遗产旅游。结合考古和历史地理空间数据库与激光雷达（光探测和测距）派生的相对海平面上升模型照亮沿海新罕布什尔州的文化遗产的脆弱性。这对于风险监测、缓解和保护规划，特别是文化遗产旅游，具有重要意义。该分析还提出，有必要讨论在规划未来海平面上升影响时，哪些遗产和哪些遗产应得到优先考虑。
Climate change threatens cultural heritage across the globe. Of its varied impacts, sea level rise is critically pressing because of the long relationship between humans and the ocean. Numerous cultural heritage sites lie on the world’s fragile coasts. Identifying cultural heritage sites at risk is an urgent need, but archaeological research programs do not always have the resources available to conduct large-scale cultural heritage vulnerability assessments. Given sea level rise poses myriad pressing issues, entities around the globe are developing sea level rise models for various management purposes (ecology, hydrology, real estate, etc.). These remote sensing-derived sea level rise models can be harnessed by archaeologists to assess cultural heritage site vulnerability. Here, such an analysis is realized for a northwest Atlantic Ocean coastal area experiencing relative sea level rise and with robust cultural heritage, including economically significant maritime heritage tourism. Combining archaeological and historic geospatial databases with LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)-derived relative sea level rise models illuminates coastal New Hampshire’s cultural heritage vulnerability. This is informative for risk monitoring, mitigation, and preservation planning, especially for cultural heritage tourism. The analysis also raises the need for discussions around what kind and whose heritage gets priority in planning for future sea level rise impacts.