Salinisation in Mesopotamia
Social-ecological modelling of settlement regions
This is a research project on the salinisation
of ancient and modern Mesopotamia.
This project incorporates social-ecological modelling, remote sensing, and GIS methods to understand land use change and hydrologic change affecting salinisation along different settlement regions in central and southern Mesopotamia.
Related outputs
- Altaweel, M. and Watanabe, C. 2012.
Assessing the resilience of irrigation agriculture: Applying a social-ecological model for
understanding the mitigation of salinization. Journal of Archaeological
Science 39(4), 1160-1171.
- Altaweel, M. Addressing the structure and dynamics of archaeological landscapes in the Ashur and Diyala region. In: P. Miglus and S. Muhl (eds.), Between the Cultures: The Central Tigris Region from the 3rd to the 1st Millennium BC.
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Project Leader:
Project Partners:
- Chikako Watanabe (Osaka Gakuin University)
Keywords:
- Salinisation
- Iraq/Mesopotamia
- EnvironmentÂ
- GIS
- Archaeological Survey
- Social-ecological modelling
- Land use
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