Seminars: Exploring the power of working together

The society is facing challenging complex environmental problems that cannot be solved using only one discipline at a time. Interdisciplinary discussions are crucial in complex problem solving, not the least when it comes to biodiversity conservation.

Historical ecology is neither a discipline nor a theory. It is a research framework for merging many kinds of evidence (e.g., documents, archaeology, ethnography, ecology and a broad array of environmental studies) to reach new understandings about the human-environment relationship. Research is stimulated by new questions, insights, and methods for combining and analysing diverse sources of information. Historical ecology is an emerging field of study that can facilitate interdisciplinarity and generate new understandings.

Seminars in Historical Ecology brings together disciplines, research, and perspectives that have much in common but are traditionally pursued alone. They all have the theoretical background in the book Issues and concepts in historical ecology - The Past and Future of Landscapes and Regions, (ed: Crumley, Westin, Lennartsson), that was published in November 2017.

- Historical Ecology is an interdisciplinary research framework. By doing seminars in Historical Ecology we aim to develop both the research framework itself and get fruitful interactions between researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds, says Anna Westin, associate professor at CBM.

- So join us for thought-provoking lectures and stimulating discussion of common interests!