Abstract
As we stand on the precipice of unprecedented global challenges, understanding the deep-time patterns of sustainability and resilience is no longer just a scholarly endeavour but imperative for the future of our planet and its inhabitants. The collection of papers in this special issue brings together archaeologists, historians, and environmental scientists around four main topics: (1) social-ecological modelling, (2) long-term human-environment interactions, (3) modelling diachronic landscapes and (4) sustainability and resilience from past to future. Our aims are to come to a better understanding of socio-economic resilience and sustainability in past, present and future societies. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to forge new conceptual frameworks for understanding complex, long-term socio-ecological dynamics. Through the case studies, theoretical reflections and methodological innovations presented here, this special issue seeks to advance interdisciplinary scholarship on sustainability and resilience and offer fresh insights into the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in building a sustainable future.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1419-1421 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Holocene |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Early online date | 18 Jun 2024 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2024.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article, and the special issue to which it belongs, was supported by Idealab funding from the Academic Foundation Leuven. We would like to thank all the authors who contributed to this special issue as well as all the speakers of our workshop in 2021. We would like to express our gratitude to the editor John Matthews and the entire staff of the Holocene for the smooth and professional editing and publishing process of this special issue. We would like to thank Academische Stiching Leuven to support the SuRP + Project: Sustainability and Resilience in Past & Present Populations and related workshop. Finally, our thanks to all colleagues from SuRP+ who contributed along the way. The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This article, and the special issue to which it belongs, was supported by Idealab funding from the Academic Foundation Leuven.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Academic Foundation Leuven | |
| Academische Stiching Leuven |
Keywords
- deep-time studies
- environmental sciences
- historical sciences
- human-environment interactions
- interdisciplinarity