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Coordinating for life. Success and failure of Western European societies in coping with rural hazards and disasters, 1300-1800 (COORDINATINGforLIFE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

Societies in past and present are regularly confronted with major hazards, which sometimes have disastrous effects. Some societies are successful in preventing these effects and buffering threats, or they recover quickly, while others prove highly vulnerable. Why is this?Increasingly it is clear that disasters are not merely natural events, and also that wealth and technology alone are not adequat ...
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Charting the Digital: Digital Mapping Practices as New Media Cultures (Charting the Digital)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Maps have changed and with that our sense of space and spatial awareness. The key objective of this research programme is to develop a framework for the conceptualization of digital maps as new techno-cultural phenomena. Digital maps allow a greater degree of interaction between users and mapping interfaces than analogue maps do. Instead of just reading maps, users have far more influence on how m ...
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