Project description
Climate change influences human migration
Many human expansions have been linked to climate change. Ancient ecological records suggest that climate change may have influenced tropical farmers' diaspora. As a result, the areas where polyculture agroforestry was practiced, expanded. The EU-funded EXPAND project uses Iowland South America as an interesting case study that integrates continent-wide archaeological and palaeoecological datasets via computer modelling architecture to test the role of environmental drivers in the late Holocene period. The project findings will help bring lowland South America to the forefront of the debate on climate change and human population dynamics.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/palaeontology/paleoecology
- /humanities/history and archaeology/archaeology/ethnoarchaeology
- /social sciences/sociology/demography/human migration
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/cultural and economic geography
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/atmospheric sciences/climatology/climatic changes
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/soil science/land-based treatment
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
H2020-MSCA-IF-2018
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Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinator
UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA
Address
Placa De La Merce, 10-12
08002 Barcelona
Spain
08002 Barcelona
Spain
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
EU contribution
€ 160 932,48
