AIMES: 5th YSN Workshop

Historical Ecology: Integrating Biophysical, Historical, and Ethnographic Evidence at the Landscape Scale

Location: Uxeau, Burgundy, France
Date: 29 June - 3 July 2009

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Each individual must apply and be accepted to attend this workshop.

Accepted applicants are in the process of being notified. Please do not inquire regarding space availability. We had an extremely strong pool of candidates to choose from. Thanks to all for applying. A workshop logistics page will be up soon. For now, we are posting required readings for this workshop, click on the author and year of publication to download:

1. Balée, William. 2006. The Research Program of Historical Ecology. Annual Review of Anthropology 35(5):15-24.

2. Crumley, Carole L. 2000. From Garden to Globe: Linking Time and Space with Meaning and Memory. The Way the Wind Blows: Climate, History, and Human Action. Roderick McIntosh, Joseph A. Tainter, and Susan Keech McIntosh, eds., pp. 193-208. Series in Historical Ecology, William H. Balee and Carole L. Crumley, eds. New York: Columbia University Press.

3. Hornborg, A. and Crumley, C., 2007 Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales. The World System and The Earth System: Global Socio-Environmental Change and Sustainability Since the Neolithic. Alf Hornborg and Carole Crumley, eds., pp. 15-28. Walnut Creek CA: Left Coast Press.

4. Newell, B., C. L. Crumley, N. Hassan, E. F. Lambin, C. Pahl-Wostl, A. Underdal, and R. Wasson. 2005. A Conceptual Template for Integrative Human-Environment Research. Global Environmental Change 15:299-307.

5. Sayre, Nathan F. 2005. Ecological and Geographical Scale: Parallels and Potential for Integration. Progress in Geography 29(3):276-290.

6. Berkes, Fikret, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke. 1998. Linking Social and Ecological Systems for Resilience and Sustainability. Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience, Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke, eds., pp. 1-25. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

New Readings for workshop manuscript from Carole:

1. A landscape analysis of western Europe during the Middle Ages

2. Remember How to Organize: Heterarchy Across Disciplines

3. A conceptual template for integrative human–environment research

Workshop Information

Support

This workshop is supported by NSF/ASP, QUEST, PAGES, the IHDP and AIMES. The Young Scholar’s Network is an activity of the Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP).

Related Information

To become a member of the network, you can be recommended from an existing member or send a statement of research, a statement describing how the postdoc network can serve you, and a letter of recommendation to: aimesysn@cgd.ucar.edu.