TY - JOUR
T1 - Optimizing preservation for multiple types of historic structures under climate change
AU - Xiao, Xiao
AU - Seekamp, Erin
AU - Lu, Junyu
AU - Eaton, Mitchell
AU - van der Burg, Max Post
N1 - Funding Information:
The research presented in this paper was supported by the National Park Service Climate Change Response Program through U.S. Department of Interior Inter-Agency Agreement P17AC00794 (project title: Assessing the transferability of a historic resources decision support model for optimized budget allocation and adaptation planning). Additional funding for model development was provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (https://www.usgs.gov) through Southeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (https://globalchange.ncsu.edu/secsc/) through grant agreement G19AP00042 (project title: Enhancing cultural resource adaptation planning in dynamic environments and assessing sediment budget research and information needs at Gulf Islands National Seashore).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Cultural resources in coastal parks and recreation areas are vulnerable to climate change. The US National Park Service (NPS) is facing the challenge of insufficient budget allocations for both maintenance and climate adaptation of historic structures. Research on adaptation planning for cultural resources has predominately focused on vulnerability assessments of heritage sites; however, few studies integrate multiple factors (e.g., vulnerability, cultural significance, use potential, and costs) that managers should consider when making tradeoff decisions about which cultural resources to prioritize for adaptation. Moreover, heritage sites typically include multiple types of cultural resources, and researchers have yet to examine such complex tradeoffs. This study applies the Optimal Preservation (OptiPres) Model as a decision support framework to evaluate the tradeoffs of adaptation actions among multiple types of historic structures—wooden buildings, masonry and concrete buildings, forts, and batteries—under varying budget scenarios. Results suggest that the resource values of different types of historic structures vary greatly under a range of budget scenarios, and tradeoffs have to be made among different types of historical structures to achieve optimal planning objectives. Moreover, periodic, incremental funding and partial maintenance are identified as optimal funding strategies for preservation needs of cost-intensive historic structures. Also, adaptative use of historical buildings (e.g., building occupancy) can improve the resource values when budget are constrained. The OptiPres Model provides managers with a unique framework to inform adaptation planning efforts for a broad range of historic structures, which is transferable across coastal parks to enhance historic preservation planning under climate change.
AB - Cultural resources in coastal parks and recreation areas are vulnerable to climate change. The US National Park Service (NPS) is facing the challenge of insufficient budget allocations for both maintenance and climate adaptation of historic structures. Research on adaptation planning for cultural resources has predominately focused on vulnerability assessments of heritage sites; however, few studies integrate multiple factors (e.g., vulnerability, cultural significance, use potential, and costs) that managers should consider when making tradeoff decisions about which cultural resources to prioritize for adaptation. Moreover, heritage sites typically include multiple types of cultural resources, and researchers have yet to examine such complex tradeoffs. This study applies the Optimal Preservation (OptiPres) Model as a decision support framework to evaluate the tradeoffs of adaptation actions among multiple types of historic structures—wooden buildings, masonry and concrete buildings, forts, and batteries—under varying budget scenarios. Results suggest that the resource values of different types of historic structures vary greatly under a range of budget scenarios, and tradeoffs have to be made among different types of historical structures to achieve optimal planning objectives. Moreover, periodic, incremental funding and partial maintenance are identified as optimal funding strategies for preservation needs of cost-intensive historic structures. Also, adaptative use of historical buildings (e.g., building occupancy) can improve the resource values when budget are constrained. The OptiPres Model provides managers with a unique framework to inform adaptation planning efforts for a broad range of historic structures, which is transferable across coastal parks to enhance historic preservation planning under climate change.
KW - Adaptation planning
KW - Climate change
KW - Decision support tool
KW - Historic preservation
KW - National park
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U2 - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104165
DO - 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104165
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85108114720
SN - 0169-2046
VL - 214
JO - Landscape and Urban Planning
JF - Landscape and Urban Planning
M1 - 104165
ER -