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Diverse case studies that explore the relationship between humans and water environments This volume features a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to underwater and coastal archaeology in Latin America. Showcasing the efforts of 82 researchers working across the region, the case studies in this book point to a long tradition of practices and beliefs related to the exploitation and management of aquatic environments, displaying a wide chronological vision that recognizes the vast and rich precolonial heritage of these waters. Chapters on the pre-Hispanic period include an analysis of evidence about the exploitation of maritime resources, ritual practices related to water, ancestral navigation, and inundated cultural landscapes, addressing examples from Mesoamerica, the Central American isthmus, and the Andes. Historical case studies are also explored, including shipwrecks, harbors, and maritime coastal landscapes in the Caribbean, on the Atlantic coast, and in Patagonia. Th e countries represented comprise Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. The material landscapes of oceans, lakes, and rivers discussed in this volume contribute to a better understanding of the dynamic relationships between humans and their environments over time. By integrating the study of behaviors associated with waterscapes into the interpretations of past and current cultures, this volume introduces new ways of seeing Latin America. Contributors : Carmela Alarcón Ledesma | Dalila Aldana Aranda | Jesús Aldana Mendoza | Cruz Apestegui Cardenal | Diana E. Arano Recio | Letizia Arbeteta | Amaru Argüeso | Mary Avila Peltroche | Laura Báez Santos | Benjamin Ballester | Helena Barba-Meinecke | Alexandra Biar | Maickel Cáceres Suárez | Flávio Rizzi Calippo | Paulo Fernando Bava de Camargo | José M. Capriles | Laura Carrillo Márquez | Ana Castelli | Claudia Castillo | Nina Castillo Sánchez | Victoria Castro Rojas | Nicolás C. Ciarlo | Luis V. J. Coll | Richard G. Cooke | Vicente Cortéz Billet | Gabriela Covarrubias Ale | Robert de Hoop | Carlos Del Cairo Hurtado | Christophe Delaere | Leon Derksen | Salvador Domínguez-Bella | Matías Dourteau | Peter Eeckhout | Dolores Elkin | Yolanda Espinoza Morales | Julieta Frere | Marcelo Gabaldón Rodenas | Alexander Geurds | Mónica Grosso | Guillermo Gutiérrez | Josué Guzmán Torres | William J. Harvey | Iris del Rocío Hernández Bautista | José Hudtwalcker Morán | Ilean Isaza-Aizpurúa | Juan Jijón Porras | Máximo Jiménez-Acosta | Roberto Junco | Eduardo Keldjian | Marcos Labrada Ochoa | Serge Lemaitre | Carlos León Amores | Nicolás Lira San Martín | Milton Luján Dávila | Martijn Manders | Josefa Martí Solano | Juan G. Martín | Marcial Medina Huanca | Velia V. Mendoza España | Cristian Murray | Bryan Núñez Aparcana | Bárbara Olguín | Carlos Pacheco Navarro | Eduardo Pareja Siñanis | José Miguel Pérez-Gómez | Abiud Pizá Chávez | Gilson Rambelli | Johan Reinhard | Javier Reyes Trujeque | Carla Riera Andreu | Felipe Rubio Munita | Marcela Sepúlveda | Ashley Sharpe | Isabel Silva León | Nicole E. Smith-Guzmán | Catalina Soto Rodríguez | Caroline Tilleux | Irene Torreggiani | Rodrigo Torres | Mónica Patricia Valentini | Marcelo Weissel | Andrés Zuccolotto Villalobos

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. As such, it rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself.

Utilizing the coastal problems of South Asia, including sea level rise, Towards Sustainable Coastal Development: Institutionalizing Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Coastal Climate Change Adaptation in South Asia investigates the role of law and regional regimes in facilitating linkages between integrated coastal zone management and coastal climate change adaptation to contribute to sustainable coastal development.

One of the paramount goals of oyster reef living shorelines is to achieve sustained and adaptive coastal protection, which requires meeting ecological (i.e., develop a self-sustaining oyster population) and engineering (i.e., provide coastal defense) targets. In a large-scale comparison along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, the efficacy of various designs of oyster reef living shorelines at providing wave attenuation was evaluated accounting for the ecological limitations of oysters with regard to inundation duration. A critical threshold for intertidal oyster reef establishment is 50% inundation duration. Living shorelines that spent less than one-half of the time (<50%) inundated were not considered suitable habitat for oysters, however, were effective at wave attenuation (68% reduction in wave height). Reefs that experienced >50% inundation were considered suitable habitat for oysters, but wave attenuation was similar to controls (no reef; ~5% reduction in wave height). Many of the oyster reef living shoreline approaches therefore failed to optimize the ecological and engineering goals. In both inundation regimes, wave transmission decreased with an increasing freeboard (difference between reef crest elevation and water level), supporting its importance in the wave attenuation capacity of oyster reef living shorelines. However, given that the reef crest elevation (and thus freeboard) should be determined by the inundation duration requirements of oysters, research needs to be refocused on understanding the implications of other reef parameters (e.g., width) for optimizing wave attenuation. A broader understanding of the reef characteristics and seascape contexts that result in effective coastal defense by oyster reefs is needed to inform appropriate design and implementation of oyster-based living shorelines globally.

Tens of millions of Americans are at risk from sea level rise, increased tidal flooding, and intensifying storms.The design and policy decisions that have shaped coastal areas are in desperate need of updates to help communities better adapt to a changing climate.