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Water, Life and Civilisation Brochure and Project Annual Report Year 3
With funding from the Leverhulme Trust,the Water,Life and Civilisation project will assess how the changes in hydrological climate have impacted human activities in the past, present and future within the semi-arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The project will bring together researchers at the University of Reading and Council for British Research in the Levant.
The project will have five component parts consisting of two models, one for climate and one for hydrology, and studies concerning palaeoenvironments, the history of human settlement, and the current and future patterns of land use. In essence, the combined climate and hydrological models will provide predictions for the water cycle and river system for each of the key study dates. The predictions will be evaluated using palaeoenvironmental and archaeological data. The consequences for human activity will be assessed by the developmental geography studies drawing on the present character and forces of economic and social change.
Professor Steven Mithen (Lead P.I)
s.j.mithen@reading.ac.uk
Dr Emily Black (Project Manager)
emily@met.reading.ac.uk
(0118) 378 6608
