This call may be of interest to those working on paleoclimate-society
relations in the past. Please help distributing the call in your
networks (pdf file attached). Thank you.
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International Open Workshop:
Socio-Environmental Dynamics over the Last 15,000 Years: The Creation of
Landscapes VI
March 11-16, 2019 in Kiel, Germany
http://www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de/
*Call for papers*
*Session 11 (title):*
Social resilience to climate changes with perspectives on the past 5000
years
*Session conveners:*
Liang Emlyn Yang, Mara Weinelt, Joana Seguin, Ingmar Unkel, Jutta
Kneisel, Artur Ribeiro
During the past few decades, many studies have highlighted periods when
significant climatic changes coincided with social upheavals. However,
fewer studies have discussed periods of social stability or prosperity
when faced with climate risks. The concept of social resilience has
gradually become an important topic in scientific communities (e.g.
Climatology, Geography, Socio-ecology, Geo-archaeology, Sustainability).
It refers to the capability of a human social system to cope with
stresses, maintain its function and evolve into a more sustainable
society with respect to climate stresses. In fact, increasing studies
are suggesting that societies continued to settle and develop in
hazard-prone areas and periods.
The overall aim of this session is to understand different cases,
manifestations, and changes of social resilience to climate impacts from
pre-historic, historical and contemporary perspectives, from local to
global perspectives, and from theoretical, empirical as well as
quantitative modelling perspectives. Specifically, the session will
discuss the following questions (but not limited to):
· What are typical cases of social resilience to climate changes in
past societies?
· What are the key factors and features for a social system to be
resilient in face of climate variation?
· How was resilience performed in key societal sectors, e.g.
agriculture, nomadism, livelihood, urbanization or population development?
· How can social resilience to climate changes be quantified,
evaluated, modeled or simulated?
· What kind of changes and evolution of social resilience to climate
changes could be observed?
· What are the scope, thresholds, and tipping points of social
resilience to climate changes?
· What can we learn from the experience and lessons of the past
resilient and/or “un-resilient” cases? Are these learnings up-scalable
to explanatory theories?
· What could be the pathways, measures, strategies and priorities
for building social resilience in present societies?
We aim to reach a big session of around 20 presentations and propose to
publish a Special Issue of 12-15 full papers in a scientific journal
that captures the variety of subjects and approaches discussed in this
session. Upon specific requests, we may consider partly covering the
participating costs of those who submit qualified full papers.
The abstract submission deadline is _November 15, 2018_. Please go to
the conference website http://www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de
<http://www.workshop-gshdl.uni-kiel.de/> to register and submit, and
also inform the conveners about your intention of full paper submission.
First version of full papers is due a week before the conference, i.e.
by_ March 04, 2019_. A target journal and other issues are to be
discussed with all participants during the workshop.
Best wishes,
Liang Emlyn Yang
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Liang Emlyn Yang, Ph.D.
杨亮，字也明
Graduate School Human Development in Landscapes
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Leibnizstraße 3, D-24118 Kiel, Deutschland
Email: ly...@gshdl.uni-kiel.de <mailto:ly...@gshdl.uni-kiel.de>
Tel. +49 431 880 5485
Fax. +49 431 880 5498
