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    Beyond the Waters' Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina

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    Watkins-Kenney, Sarah
    Abstract
    This study used a mixed methods case study approach to investigate the nature and behavior of the system in North Carolina within which managers in its public agency for Archives and History have implemented public policy to conserve the state's underwater cultural heritage since the early 1960s. The study provides a history of conservation management of underwater cultural heritage in North Carolina, methodologies, and a conceptual framework to help conservation managers identify and understand contexts within which they are working as either traditional or complex management systems. By organization theory, understanding context is recognized as crucial for effective management. When physical remains of the past are discovered in state waters it may be obvious to a professional conservator what actions are needed. Deciding what actions are taken, however, lies with public agency managers - beyond the waters' edge. Factors investigated for this study were players' (public, political, professional) interests, conservation actions, and time. Data was analyzed from the perspectives of three public policy systems models. Archives and History's management system generally was found to be traditional, but six case study sites were identified as complex adaptive systems.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7231
    Subject
     conservation; complexity; underwater cultural heritage 
    Date
    2019-04-29
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    APA:
    Watkins-Kenney, Sarah. (April 2019). Beyond the Waters' Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina (Doctoral Dissertation, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7231.)

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    Watkins-Kenney, Sarah. Beyond the Waters' Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina. Doctoral Dissertation. East Carolina University, April 2019. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7231. August 08, 2022.
    Chicago:
    Watkins-Kenney, Sarah, “Beyond the Waters' Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina” (Doctoral Dissertation., East Carolina University, April 2019).
    AMA:
    Watkins-Kenney, Sarah. Beyond the Waters' Edge: Complexity and Conservation Management of Underwater Cultural Heritage by Public Agencies in North Carolina [Doctoral Dissertation]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; April 2019.
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    East Carolina University

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