Overview During the past 20 years I have worked on three continents to research human impacts on the environment by developing time series, spatial, and qualitative data sets. I study how human modifications to the environment have long term legacy effects on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, mostly freshwater lakes and wetlands and the surrounding watershed […]
Project Overview – Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)
Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]
REAL Publications
This page lists an up-to-date, near-comprehensive list of publications by the REAL network. REAL members as first authors and co-authors are highlighted in bold font. The project officially completed in 2017, while several publications were peer reviewed or completed afterward. In addition, ideas, data, and analyses continue to be used and re-used in more recent […]
Colin Courtney Mustaphi
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[Biography] [KITE at York] [Publications] [Contact Info] [Twitter] Biography: I use sediment stratigraphies to reconstruct past environmental conditions using sedimentological and palaeoecological methods. By studying the past we can start to understand how ecosystems will respond to future climatic and land-use changes and other anthropogenic effects. My recent research interest focuses on characterising past climatic, […]
Uppsala hosts a kick-off meeting for REAL members
The Department of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Uppsala hosted a kick-off party from 19-23 November, 2013, giving all the members of the REAL Initial Training Network a chance to meet and discuss their ongoing and upcoming projects.