Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Open Access) https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD/9781108498692AR.pdf/Social_Sustainability__Past_and_Future.pdf?event-type=FTLA In his book, Sander van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socioeconomic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of…
Author: Anneli Ekblom
Climate change and the ecological destruction of Amazonia put in check the mankind’s future. It’s a worldwide tragedy. See the new book “The Future of Amazonia in Brazil; A Worldwide Tragedy”, published…
We live in an age characterized by increasing environmental, social, economic, and political uncertainty. Human societies face significant challenges ranging from climate change to food security, biodiversity declines and extinction, and political…
Enduring Impacts: Archaeology of Sustainability We are happy to annouced an ‘IHOPE’ inspired funding call from National Geographic, The Request for Proposal focuses on the gathering and analysis of archaeological, paleoenvironmental, and…
The formation of BRIDGES as an international coalition is now proposed as a means to support and strengthen the sustainability science domain as it has developed over the past two decades. Following…
7 of may WITH CLIMATE ACTION STALLING, people are now facing the prospect of having to adapt to major environmental change. Join us for an interdisciplinary discussion on the adaptability of local…
Many of today’s cities are not sited or planned for the long-term. The laboratory of the past is where durable urban forms can be identified, the importance of their supporting regions examined,…
Interlacing varied approaches within Historical Ecology, this volume offers new routes to researching and understanding human–environmental interactions and the heterarchical power relations that shape both socioecological change and resilience over time. The…
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 by Christian…
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 to heritage,…