Re-thinking the Green Revolution in the Medieval Western Mediterranean (6th - 16th centuries)

重新思考中世纪西地中海（6-16世纪）的绿色革命

• 批准号: EP/Y024338/1
• 负责人: Michelle Alexander
• 金额: $ 159.46万
• 依托单位: University of York
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY024338%2F1
• 关键词: Re; thinking; Green; Revolution; Medieval

As Mediterranean societies prepare for the impacts of climate change over the next few decades, a case study to inform their future resilience is associated with one of the defining events in world history: the emergence of Islam in the 7th century, the subsequent Arab (and later Berber) conquests of the southern and western Mediterranean, their associated population movements and the environmental adaptations that enabled these new societies to flourish. The introduction of new forms of agriculture that transformed the economies of the conquered regions has been previously framed as the "Green Revolution". Moving beyond the limited focus of earlier research, with its restricted spatial and chronological scope, this project will adopt an integrated ecological approach, encompassing plants, animals and soils, from production through to consumption, and compare the impact and legacy of environmental transformations associated with long-term societal change in the western Mediterranean (Iberia and Morocco), beyond the initial Arab/Berber conquests. Adopting a broader chronological span, from the century before the conquests through to the century after the dissolution of the last Islamic polity in Iberia, the transition from Islamic to Christian regimes in Iberia will be compared, for the first time, with the persistence of Islamic polities in northwest Africa, against the backdrop of climatic fluctuations. This will enable relationships between environmental transformations and sequences of political and demographic change to be effectively contextualised. The synergy between our groups will combine regional specialisms with a wealth of scientific expertise, enabling us to conduct the first long-term and inter-regional study of how conquest, migration and encounters with resident populations and landscapes drove environmental transformation in the western Mediterranean during this formative period in world history.

当地中海社会为未来几十年气候变化的影响做准备时，一项旨在告知其未来复原力的案例研究与世界历史上的决定性事件之一相关：七世纪伊斯兰教的出现，随后的阿拉伯（和后来的柏柏尔人）对地中海南部和西部的征服，与之相关的人口流动以及使这些新社会蓬勃发展的环境适应。新农业形式的引入改变了被征服地区的经济，此前被称为“绿色革命”。该项目超越了早期研究的有限焦点，其空间和时间范围受到限制，将采用综合生态方法，涵盖植物、动物和土壤，从生产到消费，并比较与环境变化相关的影响和遗产。地中海西部地区（伊比利亚和摩洛哥）的长期社会变革，超越了最初的阿拉伯/柏柏尔人的征服。采用更广泛的时间跨度，从征服前的一个世纪到伊比利亚最后一个伊斯兰政体解体后的一个世纪，伊比利亚从伊斯兰政权向基督教政权的过渡将首次与伊斯兰政权的持续存在进行比较。气候波动背景下的西北非政治。这将使环境转变与政治和人口变化序列之间的关系能够有效地结合起来。我们小组之间的协同作用将把区域专业知识与丰富的科学专业知识结合起来，使我们能够开展首次长期跨区域研究，研究征服、迁移以及与居民人口和景观的接触如何推动西地中海地区的环境转变。世界历史上的这个形成时期。