Rapid climate change, integrated human–environment–historical records and societal resilience in Georgia

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dc.contributor.authorLoveluck, Christopher P
dc.contributor.authorTielidze, Levan G
dc.contributor.authorElashvili, Mikheil
dc.contributor.authorKurbatov, Andrei V
dc.contributor.authorGadrani, Lela
dc.contributor.authorErb-Satullo, Nathaniel
dc.contributor.authorvon Suchodoletz, Hans
dc.contributor.authorDan, Anca
dc.contributor.authorLaermanns, Hannes
dc.contributor.authorBrückner, Helmut
dc.contributor.authorSchlotzhauer, Udo
dc.contributor.authorSulava, Nino
dc.contributor.authorChagelishvili, Rusudan
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-04T14:14:23Z
dc.date.available2024-09-04T14:14:23Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-09-04
dc.date.issued2024-08-19
dc.date.pubOnline2024-08-19
dc.description.abstractIn the midlatitudes of the planet, we are facing the imminent disappearance of one of our best high-resolution (pre)historic climate and anthropogenic pollution archives, namely the loss of glacial ice, through accelerated global warming. To capture these records and interpret these vanishing archives, it is imperative that we extract ice-cores from midlatitude regions where glaciers still survive and analyse them within frameworks of inter-disciplinary research. In this paper, we focus on Georgia, part of the Greater Caucasus. Results of ice-core analyses from the region have never, to date, been integrated with its other abundant palaeo-environmental, archaeological and historical sources. We review the results of international projects on palaeo-environmental/geoarchaeological sediment archives, the archaeology of metal economies and preliminary ice-core data in Georgia. Collectively, we show that the different strands need to be integrated to fully explore relationships between climate/landscape change and human societal transformations. We then introduce an inclusive interdisciplinary framework for ongoing research on these themes, with an ultimate future goal of using data from the past to inform societal resilience strategies in the present.
dc.description.journalNameSustainability
dc.description.sponsorshipResearch England
dc.description.sponsorshipWe are very grateful to the Research England-University of Nottingham Global Challenges Research Fund (QR), award 2114365, for funding preliminary Kazbegi ice-core research in 2021, and to the University of Nottingham International Research Collaboration Fund, award 20280929, to further develop the research in July 2023.
dc.description.sponsorshipWe are also grateful to the Climate Change Institute, University of Maine for supporting a PhD linked to the project and for provision of funding in kind. We are thankful to the EU fellowship for Georgian Researchers 2023 program and Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (project# FR-18-22377). The French CNRSD and École Normale Supérieure provided additional opportunities for networking.
dc.identifier.citationLoveluck CP, Tielidze LG, Elashvili M, et al., (2024) Rapid climate change, integrated human–environment–historical records and societal resilience in Georgia. Sustainability, Volume 16, Issue 16, August 2024, Article number 7116
dc.identifier.eissn2071-1050
dc.identifier.elementsID551733
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.issueNo16
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su16167116
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22874
dc.identifier.volumeNo16
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.publisher.urihttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/16/7116
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject37 Earth Sciences
dc.subject3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
dc.subject3705 Geology
dc.subjectClimate-Related Exposures and Conditions
dc.subject13 Climate Action
dc.titleRapid climate change, integrated human–environment–historical records and societal resilience in Georgia
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-08-14

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