Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects

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dc.citation.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0171883en_ZA
dc.citation.issue2en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorArmstrong, C.G.
dc.contributor.authorShoemaker, A.C.
dc.contributor.authorMcKechnie, I.
dc.contributor.authorEkblom, A.
dc.contributor.authorSzabó, P.
dc.contributor.authorLane, P.J.
dc.contributor.authorMcAlvay, A.C.
dc.contributor.authorBoles, O.J.
dc.contributor.authorWalshaw, S.
dc.contributor.authorPetek, N.
dc.contributor.authorGibbons, K.S.
dc.contributor.authorMorales, E.Q.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, E.N.
dc.contributor.authorIbragimow, A.
dc.contributor.authorPodruczny, G.
dc.contributor.authorVamosi, J.C.
dc.contributor.authorMarks-Block, T.
dc.contributor.authorLeCompte, J.K.
dc.contributor.authorAwâsis, S.
dc.contributor.authorNabess, C.
dc.contributor.authorSinclair, P.
dc.contributor.authorCrumley, C.L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-18T14:02:23Z
dc.date.available2017-10-18T14:02:23Z
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents the results of a consensus-driven process identifying 50 priority research questions for historical ecology obtained through crowdsourcing, literature reviews, and in-person workshopping. A deliberative approach was designed to maximize discussion and debate with defined outcomes. Two in-person workshops (in Sweden and Canada) over the course of two years and online discussions were peer facilitated to define specific key questions for historical ecology from anthropological and archaeological perspectives. The aim of this research is to showcase the variety of questions that reflect the broad scope for historical-ecological research trajectories across scientific disciplines. Historical ecology encompasses research concerned with decadal, centennial, and millennial human-environmental interactions, and the consequences that those relationships have in the formation of contemporary landscapes. Six interrelated themes arose from our consensus-building workshop model: (1) climate and environmental change and variability; (2) multi-scalar, multi-disciplinary; (3) biodiversity and community ecology; (4) resource and environmental management and governance; (5) methods and applications; and (6) communication and policy. The 50 questions represented by these themes highlight meaningful trends in historical ecology that distill the field down to three explicit findings. First, historical ecology is fundamentally an applied research program. Second, this program seeks to understand longterm human-environment interactions with a focus on avoiding, mitigating, and reversing adverse ecological effects. Third, historical ecology is part of convergent trends toward transdisciplinary research science, which erodes scientific boundaries between the cultural and natural.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianEM2017en_ZA
dc.funderThe Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) research network, the Department of Archaeol ogy and Ancient History at Uppsala University, the Mind and Nature research node at Uppsala Univers ity, the SFU Faculty of Environme nt, Sustainabi lity Simon Fraser University , and the office of the Vice-Presi dent, Academic and Provost of Simon Fraser University.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationArmstrong C.G. et al. 2017. Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects. PLoS ONE 12(2), Article number e0171883en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203 (Online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/23280
dc.journal.titlePLoS ONEen_ZA
dc.journal.volume12en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_ZA
dc.rights© 2017 Armstrong et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.en_ZA
dc.subjectCanadaen_ZA
dc.subjectCase reporten_ZA
dc.subjectClimateen_ZA
dc.subjectCommunity ecologyen_ZA
dc.subjectApplied researchen_ZA
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_ZA
dc.subjectConsensus developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectCrowdsourcingen_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmental changeen_ZA
dc.subjectEnvironmental managementen_ZA
dc.subjectCultural anthropologyen_ZA
dc.subjectEcologyen_ZA
dc.subjectAnthropology, Culturalen_ZA
dc.subjectBiodiversityen_ZA
dc.subjectEcosystemen_ZA
dc.subjectHistory, 20th Centuryen_ZA
dc.subjectHistory, 21st Centuryen_ZA
dc.titleAnthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospectsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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