Compromised sites: Climate change

Marjavaara, R. & Wingren, C. 2024

‘Disturbing the dead: climate change and the potential relocation of Swedish cemeteries’, Applied Geography, 171, 103365.

Mueller, N. & Meindl, C. 2017

‘Vulnerability of Caribbean island cemeteries to sea level rise and storm surge’, Coastal Management, 45:4, 277- 292.

Paulson, M. 2023

‘Cemeteries and climate change: what can we learn from the past, do in the present and plan for the future?’ in C. Znachko, A. Anzellini, K. Parker & C. Hicks (eds) Climate Change and Human Responses, Knoxville, TE: University of Tennessee, 111-114.

Schexnayder, J. & Manheim, M. 2017

Fragile Grounds: Louisiana’s Endangered Cemeteries, Jackson, MI: University of Mississippi Press.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract