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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES: Impacts on Maritime Cultural Resources: Assessing the Invisible

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Sean A. Kingsley
Sean A. Kingsley*
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Sean A. Kingsley, Director, Wreck Watch Int., London, UK.
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Address correspondence to: Sean A. Kingsley, Wreck Watch Int., London, UK; (e-mail) sean@wreckwatch.org.
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Abstract

The management of developer-led pressures on the marine environment is archaeology’s last frontier. Long inaccessible and invisible offshore, advances in technology have today propelled the sunken past into the consciousness of commercial archaeology. Arguably among no other form of heritage assets are archaeology and environment so complexly embedded. Lessons from the recent past have increasingly compelled developers to incorporate surveys of maritime seascapes into environmental impact assessments (coastal construction, sealane deepening, aggregate dredging, wind farms, and oil and gas pipeline and fiber-optic cable laying). Qualitative decisions about what to protect in situ, avoid, or excavate requires an objective understanding of significance assessment in relation to risk. The high profile of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage exerts increasing pressures on governments worldwide to seek sustainable development. Demersal bottom fishing, World War II shipwreck hull oil leakage, and global warming are newly emerged risks that require expanded heritage recognition.

Environmental Practice 18: 184–191 (2016)

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Environmental Practice , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 184 - 191
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© National Association of Environmental Professionals 2016 

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