Long-Term Human Ecodynamics in Coastal Peru: A Case Study of Polar-Tropical Teleconnections

这项关于适应秘鲁迅速气候变化的研究将是一项案例研究，说明极地进程如何影响远离极地的地区，但又受到极地事件的强烈影响。该研究小组将利用他们与全球人类生态动力学联盟（GHEA）和气候变化研究所等跨学科组织建立的研究合作关系，将这些热带变化与南极和北极联系起来。该项目的目标是通过解决长期存在的人类与环境相互作用问题，了解气候变化对人类社会系统的影响。这将通过在地理信息系统平台上结合多光谱、摄影和其他形式图像的尖端技术来实现，该平台将允许对环境如何随时间变化进行建模。这种以实验室为基础的研究将与对这种变化的证据的实地调查联系在一起。变化包括短期的、间断的和长期的事件和变化周期，以及独特的事件。该项目将结合对古代，历史和当代人类行为的文化历史和特殊主义研究与概括，科学研究。这项研究将调查特定时间和地点的社会如何意识到这些事件，以及他们如何为这些事件做好准备。 此外，这项研究将记录这些社会对这些不同的环境和气候变化的适应程度。以前没有人试图以这种规模记录从最早期到当今时代的这些变化。 我们相信，只有通过研究人类居住的全方位和对环境变化的反应，我们才能成功地理解这两种力量是如何相互作用的。 这将是一个完整的档案数据的重新合成;实地考察数据;和极地热带人类生态动力系统的建模。 这个项目可能是第一次重大的重新评估，这样一个跨学科的遗产材料的大集合。 因此，它有可能为许多不同的科学学科做出重大的理论和方法贡献，但更重要的是，它将强调在评估人类生态动力学过程时需要以新的方式思考地理边界。

This research on adaptation to rapid climate change in Peru will be a case study of how polar processes affect regions far from the poles but are strongly influenced by polar events. The research team will use their established research collaborations with interdisciplinary organizations such as the Global Human Ecodynamics Alliance (GHEA) and the Climate Change Institute to link these tropical changes to the Antarctic and Arctic. The project goal is to understand the impact of climate change on human social systems by addressing long-standing questions on human-environmental interactions over long periods of time. This will be done by combining cutting-edge technology in the form of multi-spectral, photographic and other forms of imagery on a GIS platform that will allow for modeling of how the environment changed through time. This laboratory-based research will be linked in a feed-back loop with on-the-ground investigation of evidence of such changes. Changes include both short, punctuated, and long-term events and cycles of change, as well as unique events. The project will marry culture-historical and particularist research on ancient, historic, and contemporary human actions with generalizing, scientific research. The research will investigate how societies in specific times and places were aware of such events and how they may or may not have prepared for them. In addition, the research will chronicle the degree to which these societies were resilient or not in reaction to these varying environmental and climatic changes. There has not previously been an attempt to document these changes at this scale from earliest times through to the current era. We believe that only by studying the full range of human habitation and responses to environmental change will we be able to successfully understand how these two forces interacted.This project is potentially transformative research. It will be a complete re-synthesis of archival data; fieldwork data; and modeling of polar-tropical human ecodynamic systems. This project may be the first major reassessment of such a large collection of interdisciplinary legacy materials. As such, it has the potential to make major theoretical and methodological contributions to a number of diverse scientific disciplines, but more importantly will underscore the need for thinking in new ways about geographic boundaries when assessing human ecodynamic processes.