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MOBILITY AND CULTURAL CONTACT IN THE SHAPING OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPES – MeSCAL
The California coast is a worldwide biodiversity hotspot with a long and rich history of prehistoric and colonial migration, contacts and peopling processes. However, little is still known about the role that these processes played in the configuration of Californian landscapes over time. MeSCAL is
Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia – PALMEXPAND
Plantation agriculture has been expanding rapidly during past decades in tropical forest regions. The expansion has been striking for oil palm in Indonesia, now the top producer in the world. While the country experiences high poverty levels and dependence of livelihoods on natural resources, the ex
Assessment of Rats Management Associated to a Genomics-Urban Ecology-Disease Occurrence Network in Paris – ARMAGUEDON
à compléter à venir à venir à venir Brown rats are among the most abundant synanthropic species living in densely urbanized habitats, but the least-studied wildlife in such environments. Their large distribution in cities could potentially bring zoonotic infectious organisms into contact with people
Human paleoecology, social and cultural evolutions among first Settlements in South AMErica (SESAME) – SESAME
By reconstructing past climatic and environmental variations in NE Brazil and revealing the cultural and technological identity of past societies, SESAME aims at revealing the evolution of the relationship between people and their environment through Pleistocene and Holocene. This human paleoecologi
The NILE & AFAR areas: hydrological change sensitivity and impact on past human adaptation since 20,000 years – NILAFAR
Numerical models that synthesize our knowledge of the climate system predict extreme variations in the water cycle over the future decades that will impact natural resources and populations. In the Horn of Africa, for several thousand years, periods of intense and weak monsoons have determined the a
Assessing the environmental sustainability of urban food supply through a lifecycle perspective – URBALIM
Feeding city in a sustainable way is one of the major challenges facing humanity. In order to meet growing environmental challenges, and societal demand for more environmentally friendly food products, emerging urban food supply schemes are praised. Based on profound changes in upstream (e.g. develo
Definition of a strategy to characterize historical ground motion based on ArChaeology, inventory of RecOnstruction, Seismology and Structural engineering – ACROSS
Historical earthquake catalogues are one of the building blocks for the assessment of seismic hazard. In spite of many years of research in the archives, many earthquakes remain poorly known. New sources of information are hence required. Among these, historical buildings are witnesses of natural
The Starch Food Niche: Human Adaptation, Genes and Culture – Starch4Sapiens
Starch4Sapiens aims to analyze and compare the biological and behavioral changes that made possible efficient starchy food metabolization which occurred in Eurasia between the Upper Pleistocene and Neolithic (from ca 126 ka to 12 ka, 6). Our hypothesis is that regular consumption of large amounts of
High-resolution Paleoclimate Archives & Social vulnerability for the last Millennium in Cyprus (Near-East) – HIGH-PASM
This project funded by the French Agency for Research (ANR) for 4 years, investigates the interaction between climate change and social responses since the medieval period in the poorly studied Near-East region, specifically on the island of Cyprus, and uses novel indicators for both climate and soc
Risks - Evacuations - Resilience – RER
After the floods in the Paris metropolitan area and in a context of environmental changes, this project aims to overcome the impediments to the integration of populations, their behaviors, mobilities, needs and representations in the assessments of vulnerability and resilience of metropolitan region
Medieval climAtic optimum and socio-economic development : study of Notre-Dame de Paris wood frame and forestry consequences – CASIMODO
The Notre-Dame de Paris (NDP) wooden oak frame is one of the greatest masterpieces of Gothic carpentry in France. It was constructed during the High Middle Ages (HMA) between the 11th and 13th centuries, at a time of profound environmental and societal changes – climate optimum, strong demographic a