The Arts and Humanities on Environmental and Climate Change: Broadening Approaches to Research and Public Engagement

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Museums’ Humanities Resources as Allies for Science
	The Use of Proxy Data for Making the Invisible Visible
	Why Don’t We Do This More?
	How This Book Is Distinctive
	Why This Book May Be Valuable to You
	References
Chapter 1: How Collections Materials Can Document Change over Time
	Museum Collections as Environmental Change Resources
	Natural History Museum Collections as “Durable Snapshots”
	Documenting Climate Change in Collections Materials
	Proxy Data
	Dendrological Materials
	How to Use Non-instrumental Proxy Data
	Using Scientific Collections Materials as Proxies for Climate Change
	Multi-factor Authentication
	Museums’ Cultural Heritage Collections as Climate Change Resources
	References
Chapter 2: How Humanities Materials Are Proxies for Documenting Climate Change
	Documentary Climate Proxy Sources: Instrumental and Non-instrumental
		Instrumental Proxy Data
		Instrumental Proxy Data with Narrative Proxy Data
		Building a Fuller Picture
	Mixed Proxy Data
		Ships’ Logbooks
		Non-instrumental Proxy Data
			Municipal Records
		Archaeological Collections
		Wooden Materials
		Images and Depictions: Photographs, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: Basic Documentary Proxy Materials in Museums
	Reasonable Use and Expectations of the Data
		Quantity
		Fluctuations
		Influences and Accuracy
			Researcher Bias
			Observer and Collector Biases
			Observer and Collector Context
		Weather Noise
		Sampling
		Historical Context
	Interpreting Environmental versus Climate Context
		Identifying Human Environmental Interference versus Human-driven Climate Change
	Noise in the Data
		Local Disparities—Noise or Better Data?
	Humanists’ Role in Recognizing Environment versus Climate
	Accuracy, Trust, and Completeness in the Data
		Accuracy in Maps
		Accuracy in Art and Images
	Emerging Approach to This Work
	References
Chapter 4: Untapped Potential for Public Engagement
	Ours, Theirs, or Both
	Local Context
	Experience
	Stories
	Objects
	Exhibits
		Early Spring, the Concord Museum
		Landscape of Change, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
	Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science
		Ice
		Weather Rescue at Sea
		TEMPEST Database
		United Kingdom Tidal Data
		Angling for Data on Michigan Fishes
		Botanical Data
		The Palaeontologist and the Gingko
	The Future of Climate Change Representation
	References
Chapter 5: The Value of Cultural Heritage to Cultural Climate Diplomacy
	Cultural Diplomacy as a Resource for Climate Diplomacy
	Cultural Heritage as a Boundary Object for Climate Diplomacy: Cultural and Climate Diplomacy among Neighbors and Nations
		Neighbors
		Indigenous Peoples and the Federal Government as Neighbors/Nations
		Global Diplomacy: Toward Meaningful Engagement
		Negotiations
		The Trouble with Numbers
		The IPCC Reports
	References
Chapter 6: Next Steps for Documentary Climate Proxy Data
	Intellectual Access
		Researcher Awareness
		Materials Identification
		Source Identification
		Datasets, Digitization, and Databases
		Methodologies
	Practical Access
		Researchers
		Funding
	Final Thoughts
	References
Index