Description du projet
Effets du changement climatique dans l’Italie médiévale
Le centre de l’Italie des VIe aux XIe siècles représente l’un des plus importants laboratoires politiques et sociaux d’Europe. Le projet InAndAround, financé par l’UE, cartographiera les effets du changement climatique sur le comportement humain dans les deux microrégions de Lucca et de Rieti. Le projet se penchera sur l’interaction entre l’altérabilité climatique et l’intervention humaine, en mettant l’accent sur la gestion de l’environnement, le changement politique et la mobilité des personnes, notamment des travailleurs. Il produira de nouveaux registres climatiques à long terme et de haute résolution à partir de sédiments lacustres prélevés récemment, combinés à des données émanant de sources écrites et de reconstructions climatiques actuelles. En se focalisant sur la compréhension des réponses humaines aux changements climatiques et environnementaux, le projet s’inscrit directement dans le programme de travail d’Horizon 2020.
Objectif
The period from the sixth- to eleventh- century in Italy is one of the most profound political and social laboratories in European history. Centered on this region and period, the primary goal of the In&Around project is to chart the effects of climate change on human behaviour. By focusing on early and high medieval Italy, the project aims at exploring the interaction between climate variability and human agency with a lens towards management of the environment and in the light of shifting political regimes, while capturing details on past issues of contemporary significance like human mobility and workforce relocation. Within the area of Italy, two micro-regions with distinct medieval histories are targeted for specific investigation: Lucca and Rieti. The project will generate new long-duration and high-resolution climate records from recently cored lake sediments combined with data derived from written sources and already extant climate reconstructions. By way of its innovation-through-interdisciplinary approach, the project will offer important opportunities for expanding the applicant’s expertise through integrating different kind of datasets, while contributing enormously to an expanding field of study in i) determining how data drawn from historical archives, natural proxies and modelling may inform respectively one another; ii) filling in a gap in research both chronologically (the first millennium of the Common Era) and geographically (the Italian peninsula) and iii) producing two new research tools useful for future studies, i.e. a repertory of 'reclaimed lands' and climatic extremes and a statistical model for climate reconstructions. Through its foci on the human responses to climate and environmental change, the project responds directly to the Horizon 2020 Work Programme to understand “the causes of climate change and to pave the way for pathways and solutions to address them”.
Champ scientifique
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorymedieval history
- natural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programme(s)
Régime de financement
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinateur
30123 Venezia
Italie