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The term resilience holds different meanings for the different groups of scholars who share its use. This article considers the application of Resilience in historical research and how the term entered historical discourse from ecology.
This engaging paper is published in the leading peer-reviewed journal WIREs Climate Change. By Prof John Haldon and Prof Thomas McGovern et al. The paper raises valuable questions and makes helpful observations concerning historical sciences and humanities disciplines, on one hand, and twenty-first century policymaking.
“We are happy to share a new film with you highlighting the collaborative work of the NSF supported grant "Coproduction of knowledge and the building of local archaeological capacity in Greenland" or RESPONSE for short (NSF Arctic Social Science Program 1821284) to Hunter College CUNY (principle investigators Tom McGovern, Jette Arneborg, Konrad Smiarowski, Christian K Madsen, and Ian Simpson).
Together the CUNY Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC) and the Princeton University Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) lead our UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub, CUNY-Princeton, devoted to Past Socio-Environmental Change and Resilience.
Author: Samantha Brummage. Historians and prehistorians like myself need to work closely with palaeoecologists to learn from each others methods, and to establish working relationships across disciplines.