Descrizione del progetto
Gli animali come fonte d’ispirazione per riprendersi dalle catastrofi
Disastri quali inondazioni, fenomeni di siccità e incendi boschivi hanno conseguenze devastanti sulla vita e sull’habitat sia degli esseri umani che degli animali. Ciononostante, numerose specie animali riescono ad adattarsi a tali effetti e a sopravvivere. In previsione di un aumento degli eventi climatici estremi nei prossimi anni, gli esseri umani possono sicuramente trarre vantaggio dalla comprensione delle molteplici strategie di adattamento adottate dagli animali in risposta alle catastrofi. Il progetto ABIDE, finanziato dal Consiglio europeo della ricerca, approfondirà il modo in cui comunità multispecie resistono e persistono in zone soggette a incendi boschivi di Australia, Brasile e Portogallo. Attingendo all’esperienza di un team interdisciplinare, il progetto si propone di chiarire il modo in cui gli animali si adattano agli effetti delle catastrofi e si riprendono di conseguenza, traducendo le informazioni acquisite in termini umani per migliorare la resilienza sociale ai disastri e la loro gestione.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC - Support for frontier research (ERC)Istituzione ospitante
1600 189 Lisboa
Portogallo