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This workshop will take place at the Navarino Environmental Observatory, Navarino Dunes, Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece.
The Mediterranean region bears a long history of human society dynamics, making it a unique experimental site to explore the complex interactions between climate, environment and human activity over a variety of time scales.
This multi-disciplinary workshop will follow a two-fold approach: a palaeoclimatic approach addressing the events, severity, rate and duration of past climatic changes, and a geoarchaeological-historical approach addressing the dynamics of past societies.
We aim at a better knowledge of both the drivers behind climate system and behind the coupled society-climate system including its ensuing response and adaptation, in order to understand human capability in readjusting into a changing environment.
A further aim is to identify strategies for acquiring the much-needed information to progress our understanding of the global/Mediterranean climate linkages and their interaction with human societies. This may include recommendations for an integrated research effort on the Holocene Mediterranean climate-human societies system, targeting on data production from multiple proxy records in key-regions and at key-periods and the development of new modelling approaches to optimize interpretation of palaeodata, reduce uncertainty and develop an integrated data/model approach to describe the evolution of human societies in response to climate and environmental changes (natural and anthropogenic).
The workshop will be open to 60 participants and is co-organised by the Navarino Environmental Observatory (Karin Holmgren: local organiser), the CNRS LSCE & PaleoMex (Marie-Alexandrine Sicre), the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Alexandra Gogou) and the Justus-Liebig University Giessen (Elena Xoplaki and Juerg Luterbacher).
Registering
Expressions of interest due 15 November 2013
Abstract submission deadline 15 January 2014
More information and expression of interest form (pdf)
Meeting materials
Contact
Karin Holmgren
Director, Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO)
Navarino Dunes, Costa Navarino, 24001, Messinia, Greece
www.navarinoneo.se
Professor in Physical Geography
Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology
Stockholm University
S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
E-mail: karin.holmgren@natgeo.su.se