Public Archaeology and Climate Change

"What a relief it is to read a hopeful book about climate change response; and even more so when it shows the exciting ways cultural heritage professionals are using science and the humanities to build new knowledge for managing heritage resources around the globe… Public Archaeology& Climate Change is a very important contribution to our field because it offers practitioners encouragement and inspiration as they race climate change to identify, record, and understand impacts on cultural heritage sites, and then to a respond to those threats and impacts." ~Sustainable Museums

"Drawing together practical case studies, the volumes provides a critical, self-reflective examination of the mitigation tools available to archaeologists at the intersection of climate change studies, public archaeology, and cultural heritage management and their effectiveness under varying regulatory, logistical, funding, social, and community circumstances. Archaeologists grappling with ways to manage climate change effects in their own field research will find much of the instructional value in this book’s 18 chapters." ~Journal of Anthropological Research

"While archaeological heritage is an underutilized field in awareness-raising about our changing climate, this edition demonstrates how it can spur engagement in diverse communities and potentially change national and international policy addressing contemporary climate change. This book will be useful to archaeologists, heritage practitioners, or even policy-makers working on the preservation and protection of any heritage site impacted by climate change." ~Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

“This important volume highlights the threats facing cultural heritage sites and offers strategies for their preservation addressed through public archaeology programs… Summing up: Recommended.” ~Choice

"Through the case studies which make up the bulk of this volume, this publication does an admirable job sharing the experiences and best practices of a wide variety of projects working at different geographic as well as applied scales. Not overly concerned with theoretical issues, the authors make clear that this volume is meant to showcase activities from around the world relevant to this problem for the purpose of knowledge exchange." ~Heritage & Society

A new publication of Oxbow Books pays attention to various recent projects worldwide, presenting 18 papers on the subject of public archaeology. Some projects focus on UNESCO World Heritage, while others focus on small-scale sites, with mainly local or regional attention. The book is an interesting and inspiring source of projects worldwide, with its focus on Europe. A handy source of information in 2018, the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH). ~Annemieke Van Roekel, Euro Scientist

“…this book provides a lot of food for thought on both of the topics named in its title.” ~Archaeology Ireland

"This is an excellent, readable volume intersecting public archaeology, climate change and cultural heritage management. I found this volume to be very readable, informative and enjoyable. I greatly appreciated the uniqueness of the intersection of public archaeology, cultural-heritage management and climate change. The editors have done an excellent job assembling the papers, and while several contributions have less of a focus on public archaeology they remain relevant within the volume’s other two themes and give a greater global perspective. I agree with the editors that ‘this volume will make a key reference for those involved in climate change and heritage studies’. I go further in saying that the relevance of this volume to cultural-heritage managers and public archaeologists will only increase in the future." ~International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

"...an urgent wake-up call about the significant, accelerating, and widespread threats that climate change poses for archaeological sites and other cultural heritage resources on a global scale […] essential reading for all archaeologists." ~California Archaeology