Moving Communities: Climate change and the possibilities of protected land

• Main Author: Brabec, Elizabeth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SelectedWorks 2022
• Subjects: Cultural Resource Management and Policy Analysis; Landscape Architecture; Urban; Community and Regional Planning; Kay; permafrost; Alaska
• Online Access: https://works.bepress.com/elizabeth_brabec/57

The distant prospect of moving communities due to climate change is here – in the United Statesand around the world. For villages such as Newtok in Alaska and Ile de Jean Charles in Louisiana,sea level rise and increasing storm events has made the communities unlivable: salinization ofwells, melting...