مقاله انگلیسی رایگان در مورد آرشیو آمریکا و تغییرات اقلیمی – الزویر ۲۰۱۸

Climate change directly affects the future security of cultural resources. Cultural heritage and in particular, archives, are increasingly at risk of degradation due to climate change threats and triggers. This study evaluated present and future consequences of water-related climate change impacts using a mapping methodology to assess exposure of American archives to incompatible weather extremes. Susceptibility to climate change threats like sea level rise, storm surge, surface water flooding, and humidity, all influenced by a combination of temperature rise and increased precipitation, at a worst-case scenario were assessed for 1232 archival repositories. Results indicate that approximately 98.8% of archives are likely to be affected by at least one climate risk factor, though on average, most archives are at low risk of exposure (90%) when risk factors are combined. Future storm surge plus sea level rise was likely to impact 17.7% of archival repositories with 22.1% affected by only storm surge and 4.3% affected by only sea level rise (1.8- m scenario). Fewer archives were likely to be susceptible to surface water flooding (2.4%). More than 90% of archives were estimated to have a temperature change greater than ±۱ °C, with 7.5% of sites likely to change by ±۱۰ °C, and 69.5% of archives were likely to receive at least 152 mm more rainfall by 2100 over current annual averages. In terms of sustainability, developing appropriate socio-economic planning schemes that integrate cumulative exposure of archives to future climate patterns is critically important for safeguarding society and its heritage. The outcomes from the risk assessment in this study aid in the decision-making process by promoting strategic adaptation protocols and providing administrators a way to prioritize archival management goals based on the expected severity of future climate change impacts.

Introduction

Climate change is increasingly recognized as a threat to cultural heritage (Rockman et al., 2016; Fatorić and Seekamp, 2017a). Cultural heritage includes both tangible forms such as paintings, buildings, monuments, and other material objects, and intangible forms, such as folklore, customs, and traditional knowledge. The well-accepted water-related climate change threats and climatetriggered phenomena that can impact cultural heritage resources include: sea level rise (Taboroff, 2000; Adger et al., 2013; Marzeion and Levermann, 2014; Anderson et al., 2017); storm surge (Gontz et al., 2011; Balica et al., 2012; Daire et al., 2012; Lickley et al., 2014); surface flooding (Dupont and Van Eetvelde, 2013; Wang, 2015; Vojinovic et al., 2016); precipitation (Haugen and Mattsson, 2011; Wang, 2015); temperature change (Hong et al., 2012; Huijbregts et al., 2012; Leissner et al., 2015); and humidity (Bernikola, et al., 2008; Bratasz et al., 2012; Lankester and Brimblecombe, 2012; Morawitz et al., 2013; Tornari et al., 2013; Camuffo et al., 2014; Bertolin et al., 2015; Tornari et al., 2015). Much of the recent work on assessing climate risks to cultural heritage has largely focused on immovable heritage such as archaeological sites (Anderson et al. 2017; Constantinidis, 2009; Reeder-Myers, 2015), cultural landscapes (Dupont and Van Eetvelde, 2013), buildings (Grossi et al., 2007; Bonazza et al., 2009a; Bonazza et al., 2009b; Haugen and Mattsson, 2011; Wu, et al., 2014; Wang, 2015), and UNESCO World Heritage sites (Smith et al., 2011; Viles and Cutler, 2012; Marzeion and Levermann, 2014; Margottini, 2015; Howard et al., 2016; Vojinovic et al., 2016). This body of literature has often focused on risks around coastal or riverine communities given the long history of human settlement in these environments (Reeder-Myers, 2015). A recent systematic literature review examined the integration of climate change and cultural heritage scholarship, which began about 14 years ago (Fatorić and Seekamp, 2017a). According to Fatorić and Seekamp (2017a), research to date focused primarily on European areas, was highly interdisciplinary, and reflected a large range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. Little of the existing work “explore[s] or acknowledge[s] the barriers, limits, and constraints to adaptation or preservation,” and significant gaps remain on the topic of adaptation planning across cultural heritage professions (Fatorić and Seekamp, 2017b). Perhaps because they largely preserve movable cultural heritage (e.g., paintings, museum objects, furniture, documents), archives1 have received less attention in the climate risk literature. Archives preserve historical records in multiple formats that are critical for legal matters, administrative accountability, and documentary cultural heritage (SAA, 2017). When these records and documents are lost following extreme weather events, for example, their absence severely handicaps socio-cultural and economic reconstruction efforts (Gordon-Clark, 2012).