International Workshop Pisa 29th-30th May 2024
With the ever-increasing realization of the importance of the Anthropocene and the global nature of the impact humans have on the environment, paleoecologic studies are placing greater emphasis on understanding the nature of the impact of people through time. Human activity critically affects environmental legacies at multiple scales, and consequently influences biogeochemical cycles and ecologic trajectories. Assessing environmental changes resulting from anthropogenic disturbances requires to incorporate socioeconomic complexity with paleoecologic data using what has been termed a “Consilient Approach”, which consists in the collaboration between historians and paleoecologists at parallel chronological and spatial scales. This will be the main topic of the Workshop “Utilizing Paleoecology, History and Biodiversity studies to better understand long term influences of people on landscapes, and their application to conservation practices” which will be held in Pisa on 29th-30th May 2024. Researchers from Universities of Italy and USA will introduce their novel results in the study of past human-environment interplay in central Italy in the late Holocene, and discuss about interactions, new hypothesis and future research.
Venue: Palazzo Boileau, Via S. Maria 85, Pisa (IT)
Organizing committee: Monica Bini, Scott Mensing, Jordan Palli, Gianluca Piovesan, Giovanni Zanchetta