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IHOPE with Felix Riede joins the newly established Knowledge-Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events. The Risk KAN network provides an open platform for scientific communities working on extreme…
Workshop: Climate change and its relation to cultural/natural heritage 14–15 March 2019, Moesgaard Museum, Aarhus As the 2019 ushers in a new, powerful wave of public awareness and action to…
Extreme climate risks are recognised as the most severe threat to fast-growing cities across the globe, and especially in Africa. As most world governments commit to reduce carbon emission, the…
TERRANOVA is a new Research Fellowship Programme funded by the European Commission that learns from landscapes with past energy regimes to design new landscapes in the low carbon society. Are…
The Handbook of Historical Ecology and Applied Archaeology was published in the beginning of 2019, with several chapters by IHOPE members. The book, published by Oxford University Press, is edited…
In a new paper in the journal Anthropocene, Lindholm and Ekblom introduce a framework of biocultural heritage based on five elements. The conceptual framework of biocultural heritage allows for new approaches…
Dr. Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Department of History at Stockholm University, has been appointed Pro Futura Scientia Fellow by the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study and the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary…
As water availability, management and conservation become global challenges, there is now wide consensus that historical knowledge can provide crucial information to address present crises, offering unique opportunities to appreciate…
A 2018 paper in the journal World Archaeology the IHOPE-project Domesticated Landscapes of the Peloponnese (DoLP) discusses resilience and persistence of ancient societies in the face of climate change: based…