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Quinn, Earl (MA). An examination and analysis of the cultural resource management habitat: Navigating the government labyrinth in Pinellas County, (Weisman). 2004.
Living and functioning effectively in the world of cultural resource management (CRM) can be perplexing and confusing. With many unrecognized or hidden difficulties and responsibilities, professional and economic survival is a challenge for archaeologists and other resource managers. By examining the agencies, laws, rules and regulations that influence the activities in one typical local government (Pinellas County, Florida), this thesis will provide a rough template that can be used to clarify the processes and complexities of the CRM environment in other communities. The effort to understand the workings of this specific governmental habitat should prove useful and instructive in efforts to interpret and decipher other government systems. They may be organized differently, but because they must respond to similar agencies and legislation, there will often be similar mechanisms and dynamics. After outlining and discussing the complexities of the CRM working environment, this research project will gauge how familiar CRM professionals and educators are with the plethora of regulations and laws that may impact their work and safety. This was accomplished through the e-mail distribution of two anonymous questionnaires, one that was distributed to professional archaeologists and the other to cultural resource educators. The responses indicated a systemic weakness in knowledge about regulatory requirements and standardized safety procedures. This is an area of weakness that will be strengthened in the future. The only question is whether it will be done internally by professionals in the CRM community, or imposed from an external source by government regulators.
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