Disturbing the dead: Climate change and the potential relocation of Swedish cemeteries

IF 4 2区 地球科学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY Applied Geography Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103365
Roger Marjavaara , Wingren Carola
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Abstract

This study focuses on the contradiction of mobility and immobility in relation to interred human remains. While society generally embraces human mobility, once individuals pass away and are disposed of, mobility ceases to be the norm. Some counties, like Sweden, has a rigid burial legislation that prohibits the re-location of interred human remains. However, both society- and climate-related events are increasingly affecting the eternal rest of the deceased. Utilizing quantitative data on all cemeteries in Sweden, this study aims to assess and analyse the potential magnitude of future large-scale moves of human remains due to expected impacts of climate change, and to put this into a relational context of norms and laws. Results show that climate change poses an apparent risk to cemeteries in Sweden, especially in the south-west of the country, and that this is mainly caused by increased risk of landslides and erosion, as a result of expected increased precipitation. A low estimate state that by the end of this century, some 30.000 interred remains and some 146.000 living survivors will likely be affected by climate-related risks.

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打扰死者:气候变化与瑞典墓地可能的迁移
本研究的重点是与安葬的遗骸有关的流动性和不流动性之间的矛盾。虽然社会普遍接受人的流动性,但一旦个人去世并被处理,流动性就不再是常态。有些国家,如瑞典,有严格的殡葬法规,禁止将埋葬的遗骸重新安置。然而,与社会和气候相关的事件正日益影响着逝者的永眠。本研究利用瑞典所有墓地的定量数据,旨在评估和分析由于气候变化的预期影响,未来大规模迁移人类遗骸的潜在规模,并将其纳入规范和法律的关系背景中。研究结果表明,气候变化对瑞典(尤其是该国西南部)的墓地构成了明显的风险,这主要是由于预期降水量增加导致山体滑坡和侵蚀的风险增加。据低估,到本世纪末,约有 30,000 具安葬的遗骸和约 146,000 名活着的幸存者可能会受到与气候有关的风险的影响。
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Applied Geography
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期刊介绍: Applied Geography is a journal devoted to the publication of research which utilizes geographic approaches (human, physical, nature-society and GIScience) to resolve human problems that have a spatial dimension. These problems may be related to the assessment, management and allocation of the world physical and/or human resources. The underlying rationale of the journal is that only through a clear understanding of the relevant societal, physical, and coupled natural-humans systems can we resolve such problems. Papers are invited on any theme involving the application of geographical theory and methodology in the resolution of human problems.
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