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.
The book ‘Earthy Matters’ is part of the Materiality in Anthropology and Archaeology series . It explores how lives are shaped through interactions with earth, soils and clay and reminds the reader that they are fundamentally part of the Earth. A lively collection of theoretically informed chapters that introduce the reader to the notion that matter is a creative agent, and that it plays a key role in the formation of our material and social worlds.
This article considers how the efflorescence of palaeoscientific approaches to the past, has given rise to historians being confronted with a wealth of new evidence on both human and natural phenomena. It considers how Humanities-based historical inquiry must embrace this emerging evidence, highlighting how historians need to engage critically with new approaches, just as they do with textual and material sources.
The Fifth Element, is a major program of The Club of Rome, which anchors the BRIDGES Club of Rome hub. In this Feature piece, Carlos Alvarez Pereira, of The Club of Rome, outlines the Fifth Element approach; to finally learning what we knew 50 years ago. How do we open the space of possibilities for humanity to decide on its course?
In June 2023 the BRIDGES Coalition began scoping humanities-led sustainability science projects from different regions around the world that address the realities of vulnerable communities and regional territories impacted by social and environmental pressures.
