UVic Researchers Study The Impact Of Natural Disasters

University of Victoria historians Zhongping Chen and Greg Blue, and librarian Ying Liu, are members of a team of international researchers investigating the rise and development of the Indian Ocean region, including Eastern Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and the emerging superpowers of China and India.
        Their study, entitled “The Indian Ocean World: The Making of the First Global Economy in the Context of Human-Environment Interaction,” will be the first large-scale attempt to investigate and analyze how environmental factors, including natural disasters, influenced the human society in the broadly defined Indian Ocean World (including China) and how human activities changed the environmental conditions. As well, the study will look at how the human-environmental interaction led to the rise of the first global economy.
        The study was one of four projects—two of which involve UVic researchers—announced last week by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
 

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