Posted in News on Jul 30, 2024.
Together the CUNY Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC) and the Princeton University Climate Change and History Research Initiative (CCHRI) lead our UNESCO-MOST BRIDGES Thematic Hub, CUNY-Princeton, devoted to Past Socio-Environmental Change and Resilience.
‘The Human Ecodynamics Research Center (HERC) at The Graduate Center, CUNY works to coordinate efforts in sustainability science and education, and to connect our efforts with national and international initiatives in sustainability science and education.
HERC focuses on the past and present global interactions of humans and the natural world, using fields of inquiry and methods of investigation from anthropology, archaeology, sociology, geosciences, climatology, biological sciences, art, history, and political science. HERC staff and affiliated scholars work to connect cutting edge sustainability science and long term human ecodynamics research to education for sustainability through active field projects, cross-disciplinary workshops and conferences, multi-institutional collaborations, and innovative cyberinfrastructure.’
CCHRI is an international interdisciplinary initiative inaugurated in 2015 with the aim of bringing together archaeologists, climate historians and specialists in the palaeoenvironmental sciences in an endeavour to transcend disciplinary boundaries and avoid mutual misunderstanding in respect of the use and application of data. Our focus is historical societal resilience and sustainability in the face of both environmental and climatic as well as anthropogenic challenges and hazards. Based at Princeton University, the core group consists of some 20 scholars in the fields of history and archaeology, the palaeo-environmental and palaeoclimate sciences, climate modelling and social anthropology, based at universities or research institutions.
The CUNY-Princeton Hub works to foster community-based co-production of knowledge and the integration of local heritage and education initiatives in projects also producing data critical to understanding long term human-environment interactions. Full community engagement is vital to any successful response on the local level to threats from climate change and the impacts of globalization. Accordingly we work with multiple collaborators to improve our own capacity to engage successfully with communities not simply as hosts but as active and vital partners in knowledge co-production in the effort to achieve sustainable societies.
Learn more about CCHRI here: Climate Change and History Research Initiative (princeton.edu)
Learn more about HERC here: Human Ecodynamics Research Center | CUNY Graduate Center