The ACHP supports addressing historic properties in climate resilience planning.
National Park Service Analysis and Guidance
- Guidelines on Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
- Cultural Resources Climate Change Strategy
- Climate Change and Your National Parks
- Coastal Adaptation Strategies Handbook
- Coastal Adaptation Strategies: Case Studies
- Preserving Coastal Heritage: Summary Report
- Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge Projections for the National Park Service
- Cultural Resource Management and Planning for the Impacts of Climate Change (George Wright Society Forum, 2015)
- Protecting Cultural Resources in Coastal U.S. National Parks from Climate Change (George Wright Society Forum)
- Webinar: Climate Science, Climate Change, and Cultural Resources
- Webinar: Climate Adaptation, Landscape Resilience, and Cultural Resources Management
- Webinar: Setting Priorities and Making Decisions for Preserving Coastal Heritage
- Climate Change (NPS National Center for Preservation Technology and Training)
- Resilient Heritage (NPS National Center for Preservation Technology and Training)
Other Key Links
- Climate and Culture (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
- High Water and High Stakes: Cultural Resources and Climate Change (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
- Sea Change: Climate Change and Coastal National Parks (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
- Keeping History Above Water (Multi-organization initiative)
- National Landmarks At Risk: How Rising Seas, Floods, and Wildfires Are Threatening the United States' Most Cherished Historic Sites (Union of Concerned Scientists)
- Climate Change and Cultural Heritage Conservation: A Literature Review (Association for Preservation Technology)
- Climate Change is the National Parks' Biggest Challenge (Climate Central)
- Safeguarding Our Cultural Past from Future Climate Change: Stories from Cape Lookout National Seashore (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Safeguarding Our Cultural Past from Future Climate Change: Stories from Jamestown (U.S. Geological Survey)
International
- Climate Change and Heritage (US/ICOMOS)
- Future of Our Pasts: Engaging Cultural Heritage in Climate Action (ICOMOS)
- Climate Heritage Network
- World Heritage and Tourism in a Changing Climate (Union of Concerned Scientists)
- A Guide To Climate Change Impacts on Scotland's Historic Environment (Historic Environment Scotland)
- Loss of Cultural World Heritage and Currently Inhabited Places to Sea-level Rise (IOPScience, 2014)
Climate impacts are threatening historic places and community identity.