TY - JOUR
KW - Climate adaptation planning
KW - Climate change policy
KW - Community-led tourism
KW - Cultural heritage management
KW - Historic preservation
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Loss and damage
KW - Marginalized group
KW - United States
KW - Climate change
KW - cultural heritage
KW - environmental impact
KW - heritage conservation
KW - minority group
KW - Tourism
KW - tourism development
AU - Ladan Ghahramani
AU - Katelin McArdle
AU - Sandra Fatoric
AB - The Gullah Geechee community of the south-eastern United States endures today as a minority group with a significant cultural heritage. However, little research has been conducted to explore this community s resilience in the face of climate change and other environmental impacts. The database Web of Science was searched and 109 publications on the Gullah Geechee community were identified. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we analyzed the publications to identify patterns and primary research themes related to the Gullah Geechee community s resilience. Findings revealed that Gullah Geechee s cultural heritage is vulnerable to climatic and societal changes, but can also be a source for enhancing community resilience and promoting more sustainable community-led heritage and tourism developments. A framework is proposed for building community resilience in the context of minority and/or marginalized communities (e.g., Gullah Geechee). This study highlights the urgent need to not only better understand and incorporate a community s economic dimensions and losses in various decision- and policy-making processes but also their cultural and social dimensions and losses. This systematic analysis can help inform both heritage preservation and community-led tourism practices and policies related to the Gullah Geechee community, as well as help direct new research efforts focusing on minority and/or marginalized community resilience.
DO - 10.3390/su12062266
M1 - 6
N1 - Publisher: MDPI
N2 - The Gullah Geechee community of the south-eastern United States endures today as a minority group with a significant cultural heritage. However, little research has been conducted to explore this community s resilience in the face of climate change and other environmental impacts. The database Web of Science was searched and 109 publications on the Gullah Geechee community were identified. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we analyzed the publications to identify patterns and primary research themes related to the Gullah Geechee community s resilience. Findings revealed that Gullah Geechee s cultural heritage is vulnerable to climatic and societal changes, but can also be a source for enhancing community resilience and promoting more sustainable community-led heritage and tourism developments. A framework is proposed for building community resilience in the context of minority and/or marginalized communities (e.g., Gullah Geechee). This study highlights the urgent need to not only better understand and incorporate a community s economic dimensions and losses in various decision- and policy-making processes but also their cultural and social dimensions and losses. This systematic analysis can help inform both heritage preservation and community-led tourism practices and policies related to the Gullah Geechee community, as well as help direct new research efforts focusing on minority and/or marginalized community resilience.
TI - Minority Community Resilience and Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Case Study of the Gullah Geechee Community
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85082811186&doi=10.3390%2fsu12062266&partnerID=40&md5=40e28f7cc1aa2619bf0e72571b8f2253
VL - 12
SN - 20711050 (ISSN)
ER -