The Sustainability of Settlement and Exploitation of Liminal Coastal Environments in the North Sea Region, c. 1150-1400

北海地区临海环境定居和开发的可持续性，c。

• 批准号: 2465294
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2465294
• 关键词: Sustainability; Settlement; Exploitation; Liminal; Coastal

Britain's low-lying coastal wetlands face the related threats of climatic change andrising sea levels. These problems are particularly acute in Romney Marsh, aregion of combined salt and freshwater marsh covering c. 260 km2 in southwesternKent. Before c. 1150, settlement of Romney Marsh had largely beenlimited to sporadic seasonal occupation. After this point, there was a shift towardsyear-round marshland exploitation which may have partly caused or exacerbateda series of devastating flooding episodes in 1250 and 1287-88. My thesis willexplore this past experience of flooding and the subsequent societal response,enabling an assessment of the anthropogenic role in destabilising marshlandenvironments. Additionally, I will investigate where agency lies in transforming themedieval landscape, use of its resources, and the cause of this shift towards anew exploitative relationship with marshland. An inter-disciplinary approach willutilise a range of sources, including the parochial built environment, legaldocuments, and pedological surveys, to gather quantitative data on land use,ownership and settlement patterns. This will enable a reconceptualisation ofhuman relationships with the environment during the Middle Ages. Such researchis urgently needed to provide perspective on the current ecological crisis becausemarshlands are a critical natural resource. However, part of the evidence uponwhich it relies, Romney Marsh's medieval field system, is fast being eroded by apost-1960s shift in regional farming policy from pastoral to arable methods.Consequently, current agricultural practices and the marshland's unstable ecologymake this research particularly timely.

英国低洼的沿海湿地面临着气候变化及海平面的相关威胁。这些问题在罗姆尼·马什（Romney Marsh），盐和淡水沼泽覆盖物中尤为严重。 Southwesternkent的260 km2。 c之前。 1150年，罗姆尼·马什（Romney Marsh）的定居点在很大程度上被限制为零星的季节性职业。此后，在1250年和1287 - 88年间，可能导致或加剧了一系列毁灭性洪水发作的一部分或加剧了一系列毁灭性的洪水发作。我的论文将在过去的洪水经历和随后的社会反应中进行探讨，从而评估人为作用在破坏棉兰环境中稳定的作用。此外，我将调查机构在改变主题景观，资源的利用以及向沼泽地逐渐剥削关系的原因中进行转变的何处。一种跨学科的方法将使一系列来源，包括狭och的建筑环境，法律媒介和教学调查，以收集有关土地使用，所有权和和解模式的定量数据。这将使中世纪的人类关系与环境之间的重新概念化。这种研究迫切需要对当前的生态危机提供观点，因为这是关键的自然资源。然而，部分证据依赖于罗姆尼·马什（Romney Marsh）的中世纪野外系统，这一区域农业政策从牧民到耕种方法的转变迅速侵蚀，这是当前的农业实践，而沼泽地的不稳定生态学尤其是及时的。