Paper short abstract:

This paper addresses why interregional knowledge exchange and cooperation are essential to improve heritage management in European peripheral coastal landscapes, based on interconnected pasts, common landscape features and similar societal challenges.

Paper long abstract:

Heritage in coastal landscapes confront preservationists, spatial planners, policy makers and politicians challenges that are specific for their coastal context. Heritage management in peripheral coastal landscapes varies greatly from one area to the next, but throughout Europe, several key issues and challenges recur. Rooted in the Interreg project Hericoast, Linde Egberts considers why knowledge exchange between coastal regions on the management of their heritage is of high importance, for managing coast-related heritage efficiently, taking the regional spatial and historical characteristics into account. They relate heritage challenges directly to diverse contemporary economic, social, cultural and ecological challenges these regions face. This paper addresses five aspects of heritage in coastal landscapes that explain why interregional knowledge exchange and cooperation are essential to improve heritage management. In short these are:

· Interconnected cultural histories

· Coastal heritage: common heritage, common challenges

· Coastal landscapes as marginalized pasts in heritage preservation

· The threats and opportunities of coastal tourism

· Ecological risks and challenges