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The increasing intensity and frequency of extreme climate events resulting from longer-term changes in disturbance regimes are among the most pressing policy issues facing the world today. By integrating archaeological and paleoecological data we can learn from the past about what makes some socio-environmental systems more resilient to long term and periodic challenges than others. This allows for historical comparisons but also provides context for current and future management.
This session is part of the PEOPLE 3000 - Paleoclimate and the Peopling of The Earth. The P3k-working group aims to integrate paleo-population, paleoecological, and paleo-social records into co-evolutionary models to investigate the properties of socio-environmental systems (SES) that may convey more or less resilience to changes in disturbance regimes.
What makes some socio-environmental systems more resilient to changes in disturbance regimes than others? In this session we welcome papers focusing on integrating different datasets such as archaeological radiocarbon and paleoecological data to provide examples of how changes in disturbance regimes may or may not influence socio-environmental systems, or papers that explain long-term patterns of energy consumption in socio-environmental systems and how these systems were impacted by changing climates and environments. We invite papers aiming at understanding the complex dynamics between society, technology and ecology during the Holocene either through empirical case studies or through theoretical approaches. Papers focusing on local, regional or larger scale case studies across Europe and beyond are welcome.

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