Descripción del proyecto
Aprender de los animales a cómo recuperarse de las catástrofes
Las catástrofes naturales, como las inundaciones, las sequías y los incendios forestales, tienen consecuencias devastadoras para la vida y los hábitats de las personas y los animales. Sin embargo, muchas especies animales logran adaptarse y sobrevivir. Dado que se prevé que en los próximos años aumente la frecuencia de los fenómenos meteorológicos extremos en los próximos años, las personas podrían beneficiarse de la comprensión de las diferentes estrategias de adaptación de los animales a las catástrofes. En el proyecto ABIDE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, se examinará cómo las comunidades integradas por múltiples especies afrontan y sobreviven en zonas propensas a incendios forestales de Australia, Brasil y Portugal. El objetivo del proyecto, que cuenta con los conocimientos especializados de un equipo multidisciplinario, es ofrecer información novedosa sobre cómo se adaptan los animales a las catástrofes y se recuperan de ellos y, a continuación, traducirla a términos humanos en pos de mejorar la resiliencia social y la gobernanza del riesgo de catástrofes.
Objetivo
What and how can we learn from animals about recovering from disasters? How can we hear them in their own terms, translate their stories, and include their perspectives, in human knowledge about disasters? This project explores the resilience of multispecies communities, and their capacities for healing and bouncing back from disasters, through the point of view of nonhuman animals. It departs from the current context of acute climate crisis, which sets the stage for Dantesque scenarios of impending climate-driven disasters such as wildfires, floods, tornados and hurricanes, with related extensive loss of both human and nonhuman lives, liveable dwellings and species extinction. Focusing on wildfires as disasters that challenge previous expert knowledge due to climate change and human exploitation of natural resources, we propose to compare three countries where wildfires have taken on increasingly critical proportions every year: Brazil, Australia and Portugal. We address a species gap in our knowledge of disasters, and wildfires in particular, by exploring the possibilities of learning with animals how to live and cope with extreme change and uncertainty in wildfire-prone areas. Drawing on contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, ethologists, biologists and geographers, ABIDE aims at attuning to, translating and including the voices, stories and experiences of animals into our knowledge of how multispecies communities can better recover from the traumatic experience of wildfires. In the end, we seek to build the foundations for a new interdisciplinary framework for addressing humans' and animals' ability to build and abide in multispecies communities that are more resilient to wildfires and other disasters. In so doing, we aspire to identify the landmarks of a post-species episteme, and thus push forward the frontiers of knowledge of human-animal relations, as well as contribute to a more-than-human governance of disasters.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Institución de acogida
1600 189 Lisboa
Portugal