EOS Participation in “Hazards, Tipping Points, Adaptation and Collapse in the Indo-Pacific World” A Project Integrating History and Science
The project, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), aims to provide a new understanding of Indo-Pacific history post-1000 C.E. based on an enhanced understanding of the inter-relationship between natural environmental cycles and events, and social and political cycles and events. By employing specialists and methodologies in both the social and natural sciences, the project identifies tipping points or thresholds beyond which both social and natural systems change irrevocably. The outcome of this project will likely highlight the importance of natural hazards as potential catalysts of historical change from whose experiences current societies might learn to better understand disaster risk reduction in the context of anticipated climate variability.
Funding Sources:
- Australian Research Council
- Earth Observatory of Singapore
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Collaborators:
James Warren, Murdoch University
Tana Li and Anthony Reid, Australian National University
Franck Lavigne, Laboratoire de Géographie Physique, University of Paris 1
Francis Gealogo and Charlotte Kendra Gotangco, Ateneo de Manila University
Alicia Schrikker, Institute for History, Leiden University
Gregory Bankoff, History Department, University of Hull