The 105th RIHN seminar

In this seminar, visiting research fellow of “Long-term Sustainability through Place-Based, Small-scale Economies: Approaches from Historical Ecology” project will give a talk on her research.

If you have time and if you have interests, please feel free to join our seminar.

Date: August 18th, 2014 (Monday) 14:00-15:15
Place: Seminar room 3&4( → Access)
Speaker: Dr. LILIANA Janik
Schedule:
  1. 14:00-14:05 Opening remark & Introduction of visiting research fellow
  2. 14:05-15:15 (including Q & A) Speaker: Dr. Liliana Janik
Title: The present and the past: Environmental services, biodiversity, metastable ecosystems, and the cultural categorisation of the landscape

Abstract:

The aim of this talk is to look at the way we approach environmental and climatic alterations when conceptualising landscape in the present and in the past. I consider scientifically-based proxies of climatic alterations and environmental changes while at the same time trying to understand how the environment as a natural landscape is understood in the cultural contexts of the past and the resent. In particular I focus on issues of environmental services, biodiversity, metastable ecosystem, and the cultural categorisation of the landscape in Palaeolithic Europe and Jomon Japan.

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