Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects
| Autor: | Anneli Ekblom, Anna Shoemaker, Paul Sinclair, Oliver Boles, Iain McKechnie, Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, Paul Lane, Aleksandra Ibragimow, Eréndira M. Quintana Morales, Carly Nabess, Kevin Gibbons, Alex C. McAlvay, Tony Marks-Block, Sākihitowin Awâsis, Carole L. Crumley, Nik Petek, Eugene N Anderson, Sarah Walshaw, Jana C. Vamosi, Péter Szabó, Joyce K LeCompte, Grzegorz Podruczny |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Lane, Paul [0000-0002-9936-1310], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, Parmakelis, Aristeidis |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Atmospheric Science History 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Cultural anthropology Social Sciences lcsh:Medicine 01 natural sciences Historical Archaeology Spatial and Landscape Ecology Medicine Applied research Arkeologi lcsh:Science History Ancient Climatology Multidisciplinary Ecology Historical Article Biodiversity 21st Century Variety (cybernetics) 20th Century Community Ecology Archaeology Research Design Historical ecology Medieval Research Article Natural History Canada Resource (biology) General Science & Technology Climate Change Ecology (disciplines) Crowdsourcing History 21st Century 010603 evolutionary biology Ecosystems Ancient Cultural Humans Anthropology Cultural Ecosystem 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Sweden business.industry Ecology and Environmental Sciences lcsh:R Biology and Life Sciences Paleontology Environmental ethics History 20th Century 15. Life on land Historical Ecology History Medieval 13. Climate action Anthropology Earth Sciences lcsh:Q Paleoecology Paleobiology business |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 2, p e0171883 (2017) PloS one, vol 12, iss 2 PLoS ONE |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0171883 |
| Popis: | This paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key questions for historical ecology from anthropological and archaeological perspectives. The aim of this research is to showcase the variety of questions that reflect the broad scope for historical-ecological research trajectories across scientific disciplines. Historical ecology encompasses research concerned with decadal, centennial, and millennial human-environmental interactions, and the consequences that those relationships have in the formation of contemporary landscapes. Six interrelated themes arose from our consensus-building workshop model: (1) climate and environmental change and variability; (2) multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary; (3) biodiversity and community ecology; (4) resource and environmental management and governance; (5) methods and applications; and (6) communication and policy. The 50 questions represented by these themes highlight meaningful trends in historical ecology that distill the field down to three explicit findings. First, historical ecology is fundamentally an applied research program. Second, this program seeks to understand long-term human-environment interactions with a focus on avoiding, mitigating, and reversing adverse ecological effects. Third, historical ecology is part of convergent trends toward transdisciplinary research science, which erodes scientific boundaries between the cultural and natural. |
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