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Volume 39, Issue 2

New Challenges for Cultural Heritage: Supporting Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change

This themed issue collects together papers from sociocultural anthropologists and archaeologists that address how cultural heritage supports biodiversity in the face of threats posed by global climate change. In general, cultural heritage research examines how historic resources become mobilized in the present for pressing societal issues, functioning as a meta‐cultural mirror for reflecting on and enacting social change.

Introduction
Future-making in the Face of Risk: Drawing on Heritage and Community Resources
// Brandi Janssen and Stephanie Paladino

Special Issue Articles – Guest Editors: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico
Introduction – New Challenges for Cultural Heritage: Supporting Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change
//Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

Are Trees Rooting for Us? The Heritage of Greening in Qatar
//Trinidad Rico

Freezing Seeds and Making Futures: Endangerment, Hope, Security, and Time in Agrobiodiversity Conservation Practices
// Rodney Harrison

After Wheat: Revitalizing Sicilian Agriculture through Heritage Tourism
// Joshua Samuels

You Can’t Grow Potatoes in the Sky: Building Resilience in the Face of Climate Change in the Potato Park of Cuzco, Peru
// Matthew Sayre, Tammy Stenner, Alejandro Argumedo

Ancient DNA as a Tool for Navigating the Anthropocene
// George Hambrecht

Biodiversity in World Heritage Cultural Landscapes: Possibilities and Problems for Communicating Climate Change and Mobilizing Mitigation
// Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels

Article
Challenging Current Knowledge on Amazonian Dark Earths: Indigenous Manioc Cultivation on Different Soils of the Colombian Amazon
// Clara P. Peña-Venegas, Gerard Verschoor, Tjeerd Jan Stomph, Paul C. Struik

Research Reports
Toxicity Reduction in Bamboo Shoots: Field Survey and Scientific Validation of a Traditional Knowledge System
// Poonam Signal, Ranjay K. Singh, Santos Satya, Satya Narayan Naik

Growing Food, Growing Consciousness: Gardening and Social Justice in Grand Rapids, Michigan
// Christina Mello, Lisa Oliver King, Inez Adams