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Anthropogenic Changes in the Environment of Belarus
Tracing the starting points and developments of anthropogenic change in Belarus

BIOME 300
Reconstructing global land use over the past three centuries

Changes In The Fire Regime And Forest Dynamics In Finland Through The Past 4000 Years
Estimating the frequency of fires in Finland's boreal forests.

Cultural Landscape Development
Long-term developments in the Danish cultural landscape.

EDEN Project
Ecology, Demography and Economy in Nusantara (Indonesia)

European Commons Network
A network studying aspects of common resource use in Europe

Global Paleoflood Database
Development of a global database of paleoflood hydrological results.

Historical ecology of cultural landscapes
Research into Dutch landscape history

Historical Sustainability Research
Research into the history of the early modern Austrian landscape

Historical Vegetation Maps of the Hungarian Plain
A botanical interpretation of historic maps from the Hungarian lowlands

Holocene Paleo-Hydrographic Changes In Greenland Coastal Waters And Fjords, And Possible Implications For Human Settlement
Five year project testing the relationship between atmospheric change and settlement.

Lacustrine Paleohydrology and Hydroclimatological Change, Northwestern India
Documenting decade - to century - scale variations in monsoon precipitation for Rajasthan, India.

Land Use History and Plant Diversity
Botanical and landscape history of Denmark from the Iron Age onwards.

LINK - Linking land and sea at the Faroe Islands
Mapping and Understanding Changes in the North Atlantic

Long-term effect of grazing on permanent grassland, heathland and woodland ecosystems
The effects of grazing strategies on different ecotypes in Denmark.

Long-term Soil Change Experiment
The study of soil change throughout the world. Project based in Duke University, USA.

Natural Radioisotopes
Isotopic study of the karst region of Croatia.

Nordic Forest Project
A study of cultural processes in Nordic woodland communities.

Paleoflood Hydrology of Rivers in Central and Southern India
Documenting the magnitude and frequency of extremely large tropical floods in relation to hydroclimatological change.

Paleoflood Hydrology of the Southwestern United States
Interpreting the hydroclimatological causes of extremely large floods and their clustering in time and space.

SEREIN - The Sahel-Sudan Environmental Research Initiative
Utilisation and potential of natural resources in the West-African Sahel.

Vegetation and Landscape History of the Hungarian Plain

 

 

   

 

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