Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research associate/fellow to work as part of a team on a Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Integrated ClimAte Resilience UnderStanding (ICARUS) Belize’. The project will develop and apply an approach that integrates climate information drawn from instrumental records, community experience, historical accounts and palaeoenvironmental (including archaeological) data to enable a deeper understanding of resilience to extreme climate events in Belize, with the overall objective of building improved resilience in future. The role of this post holder will be to undertake a desk-based review of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological literature relating to Belize and the adjacent areas of Mexico and Central America using available databases (e.g. WoS) to develop a project bibliography. They will then analyse, interpret and synthesise information from these sources focusing on evidence for 1) climate change (including extreme events such as droughts and hurricanes), 2) changes in natural vegetation, landcover and landuse, and 3) human responses to climate change including changes in diet and nutrition, changes in traditional practices, abandonment or structural changes in settlements and changes in water management practices. The role holder will be expected to work closely with other members of the project team working on developing understanding of extreme climate events, responses and resilience using a range of methods and disciplinary perspectives.
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