Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más profundo del cambio climático en el primer milenio
Estudiar el pasado es fundamental para comprender el futuro. Tal es el caso del cambio climático, la crisis que define nuestra época. El proyecto SSE1K, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, proporcionará una imagen holística de los conocimientos, la resiliencia y la sostenibilidad del pasado, y cambiará la forma en que los especialistas entienden las relaciones entre los seres humanos del pasado y las fluctuaciones ambientales y climáticas. En concreto, el equipo del proyecto examinará los cambios ambientales y climáticos que se han identificado como causas de los procesos y fenómenos sociales y políticos del Mediterráneo durante el primer milenio de la era común. Dicho período fue testigo de notables cambios y revoluciones demográficas. En SSE1K se estudiarán las actividades antrópicas y los cambios ambientales durante este período y se explicará cómo fueron experimentados y percibidos.
Objetivo
In the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, environmental and climatic changes have been identified as causes for significant short- and long-term societal and political processes and events, such as epidemics and the rise and fall of empires. However, the effects of environmental or climatic variation on humans are substantially more complex than a narrative of causation of major events, since culturally specific perceptions and interpretations of environmental or climatic variation can have significant social, religious or political implications.
SSE1K builds on state-of-the-art research but goes beyond it to ask novel, important questions about relationships between past societies and environmental / climatic fluctuation. The project will pioneer an approach which is both multi- and interdisciplinary, centring on these questions: How did humans experience and perceive environmental and climatic variation across the Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and how did they respond both intellectually and socially to these changing conditions? SSE1K addresses issues which have been raised as significant challenges for collaborative study of climate change but have yet to be fully addressed: it will investigate how the circulation of knowledge and adaptability intersect with sustainability and resilience in pre-modern societies, and how human perceptions and ways of thinking shaped societal, political or religious responses to environmental / climatic change.
The project will integrate textual, archaeological and environmental evidence to investigate a large geographical area (the Mediterranean) at a scale which balances human lived experience and climate trends (the first millennium CE) over macro- and micro-levels. This integration is crucial in producing a holistic picture of past knowledge, resilience and sustainability, and will change the ways that scholars understand the relationships between past humans and environmental / climatic fluctuation.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
30123 Venezia
Italia