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The European Landscape Learning Initiative: Past and Future Environments and Energy Regimes shaping Policy Tools

Description du projet

Tirer les enseignements du passé: de nouveaux modèles d’utilisation des sols et de changement climatique intégrant les actions humaines passées

L’histoire a beaucoup à nous apprendre. Un examen de plus de 10 000 ans d’utilisation humaine des sols et de transitions socioculturelles nous permet d’observer d’importants changements majeurs passés dans l’utilisation des ressources et les régimes d’énergie et nous offrir un précieux aperçu de notre transition actuelle vers une société à faibles émissions de carbone. Avec le soutien du programme Actions Marie Skłodowska-Curie, le projet TerraNova établira un réseau de formation innovant pour développer une nouvelle génération de modèles de paysages et de changement climatique intégrant les effets des actions humaines passées. Cette approche favorisera l’élaboration de scénarios nouveaux et améliorés pour une meilleure gestion des terres et un retour de la vie sauvage, soutenant les objectifs pour une Europe neutre en carbone.

Objectif

Terra Nova: The New Learning Initiative between Humanities and Science: Mapping Past Environments and Energy Regimes, Rethinking Human Environment Interaction and Designing Land Management Tools for Policy. This project aims at improving our diachronic long term understanding of landscape histories and land use strategies in Europe in the Holocene and Anthropocene. Previously identified socio-cultural transitions and the effects of natural forcings will be critically assessed in a new intellectual interdisciplinary arena created by the Terra Nova project. Regional and continental syntheses will be used to anchor a new generation of landscape and climate change models which include the effects of past human actions and generate scenarios for landscape management and rewilding.
Ultimately this project will contribute to identifying major previous shifts in resource use and energy regimes and provide options for the future transition to a low carbon society.
Can we identify a balance between natural and cultural landscapes changing over space and time? Can we establish a natural reference for ‘European landscapes’ to evaluate current and future measures of landscape planning, ecosystem restoration and rewilding? Or are both systems so intertwined that the separation of the human from the natural is complex and scale and time dependant? Some researchers mark the industrial revolution as the start of the Anthropocene, others argue that long ago humans in Europe had a larger influence than natural processes upon the landscape. Notwithstanding these differences, there is consensus that the intensity of management and impacts of land management on natural systems today is unprecedented. This leads on to consideration of themes of sustainability and societal impact upon landscapes in the 21st century. From this perspective knowledge of past energy regimes and landscape interactions are essential components in understanding the present transition to a low carbon society.

Coordinateur

STICHTING VU
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 796 859,64
Adresse
DE BOELELAAN 1105
1081 HV Amsterdam
Pays-Bas

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Région
West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Coût total
€ 796 859,64

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