Tenure track appointment in Rural History of pre-industrial Europe Ghent University
Tenure track appointment in Rural History of pre-industrial Europe (Thijs Lambrecht)
Tenure track appointment in Rural History of pre-industrial Europe (Thijs Lambrecht)
Deltas are among the most urbanised and wealthiest regions of the world. Today, their very existence is threatened by climate change. Innovative solutions are urgently needed, and delta cities around the globe have joined forces to confront the climate crisis. The dependence on innovation for their survival is however not a recent phenomenon but has a longer history. Surprisingly, little is known about the specialised skills and knowledge ...
This proposal aims to give a new impulse to the stronger tendency in social and economic research to look at the past in order to deal with contemporary questions of unequal economic growth and prosperity. We will study the mechanisms behind the diverging growth paths in medieval and early modern Europe, which are at the basis of the current global economic model. Four test areas will be studied in a comparative way.
Cloud for Europe (C4E) addresses the objectives of the European Cloud Partnership program. It gives a clear view on the public sector requirements and usage scenarios for Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of C4E are to remove the obstacles for Cloud adoption and to harmonize the requirements from different public organisations beyond national borders. Stakeholders from industry, purchasers, government users and citizens are ...
Before the large scale use of fossil coal, charcoal was the most important fuel for many (proto)industrial activities, and I particular for the production of iron. Charcoal was produced in kilns that were situated in former woodlands. In many areas in NW-Europe, there are numerous archaeological remains of these charcoal kilns, dating from the iron age till the post medieval period, preserved in the soil. These are an important but little ...
Global warming and the associated climate change can, with overwhelming evidence, be directly linked to the increasing emission of greenhouse gasses by human activities, with CO2 being the most important one. The increase of the mean global temperature has many effects on the natural environment, of which some are considered to be very harmful to the current human society. Under the 2015 Paris agreement, it was therefore internationally ...