As we lean into the headwinds of this era of climate change, preserving cultural landscapes can sometimes seem confusing, difficult, and thorny. How might those…
Cultural landscapes are historically significant properties that show evidence of human interaction with the physical environment. In the United States National Park Service (NPS), their…
For many of us, the most easily envisioned effect of climate change will be a rise in sea levels that conjures visions of truncated coastlines,…
Introduction Climate change, including the related phenomenon of global sea level rise, is transforming landscapes, exacerbating risks to human settlements and economies, and forcing societies…
Introduction The Jackson Park GLFER project seeks to advance park landscape adaptation and resilience to the anticipated regional effects of climate change, the most common…
Introduction Disasters, both natural and human-induced, will have an increasing effect on the world’s population, particularly with the added impacts of climate change.1 From Hurricanes…
Introduction The ephemerality of the built environment exists through a multitude of lenses and questions the presumed need for traditional trajectories of preservation and longevity….
Chris Beagan is a Historical Landscape Architect with the National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation in Boston, Massachusetts. He works to strengthen research,…
