The Interaction between Human Beings and the Environment: Challenges and Prospects for the Sustainable Development of Ecosystems
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 8103
Special Issue Editors
Interests: palaeoenvironment reconstruction; sedimentology; carbonates; geoarchaeology; stable isotopes
Interests: geomorphology; environmental Geography; earth observation/remote sensing; GIS; GNSS
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of human societies during the Holocene has been closely related to the environments in which they have grown. This interaction has played a significant role in shaping both the natural and the anthropogenic environment, with documented impacts from prehistory to the modern era. The challenges of the past, as well as the societal and technological transformations that helped deal with these challenges, were key factors in transitions to improved, but also degraded, cultural and natural contexts. Understanding these past interactions is a key element of surveying current and future development.
Contributions to this Special Issue will explore the past and present records of interaction between human societies and the environment, considering the prospect of sustainable development of ecosystems in the future. We invite perspectives that interpret palaeo-archives and records of past environments, documented impacts on human societies, and modern records and proxies that decipher how modern human societies and environments interact in different scales and geographies. Contributions are requested from any geographical, chronological, or methodological perspective, with regional and comparative syntheses being particularly welcome.
Dr. David Psomiadis
Dr. Antonios Mouratidis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- holocene
- palaeoenvironment
- sustainability
- geoarchaeology
- environmental geography
- geospatial science and technology
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