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The dataarc community investigates long-term human-environment dynamics. “The changing landscape” is the overarching high-level concept which encompasses the project’s research domain.
The shift in settlement pattern in the Myvatyn region of Iceland from the 12th - 18th c. CE.
The use of tephrochronology to date accumulations of aeolian sediment as a proxy for soil erosion and ecological indicators of landscape change across Iceland.
The establishment of coastal fishing posts in the Hebrides and Orkneys in late pre-history.
Measuring landscape change:
Dugmore, A.J. and Newton, A. 2012 ‘Isochrons and beyond- maximising the use of tephrochronology’ Jokull: The Icelandic Journal of the Earth Sciences. 62, p. 39-52
Streeter, R. T. and Dugmore, A. J. 2013 ‘Reconstructing late-Holocene environmental change in Iceland using high-resolution tephrochronology’ The Holocene. 23, 2, 197-207.
Landscape changes driven by climate:
Simpson I., Dugmore, A.J., Thomson, A. and Vésteinsson, O. 2001 ‘Crossing the thresholds: historical patterns of landscape degradation in Iceland.’ Catena 42, 175-192.
Landscape changes driven by woodland change/woodland conservation strategies:
Mairs, K.A., Church, M.J., Dugmore, A.J., and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. 2006 ‘Degrees of succcess: evaluating the environmental impacts of successful long term settlement in south Iceland.’ In Arneborg, Jette and Grønnow, Bjarne (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen 2006: 363-372. IBSN: 87-7602-052-5
Church, M. J., Dugmore, A. J., Mairs, K. A., Millard, A. R., Cook, G. T., Sveinbjarnardóttir, G., Ascough, P. A., Newton, A.J and Roucoux 2007 ‘Timing and mechanisms of deforestation of the settlement period in Eyjafjallsveit, southern Iceland. Radiocarbon 49(2): 659-672.
Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J., Mairs, K.A., McGovern, T.H., Perdikaris, S. and Vesteinsson, O. 2007 ‘Abandoned farms, volcanic impacts and woodland management: revisting Þjórsárdalur, the ‘Pompeii of Iceland’’ Arctic Anthropology 44,1 1-11
Landscape changes driven by fragile soils and false analogies:
Dugmore, A.J., Church, M.J., Mairs, K.A., McGovern, T.H., Newton, A.J. and Sveinbjarnardóttir, G. 2006 ‘An over-optimistic pioneer fringe? Environmental perspectives on medieval settlement abandonment in Thorsmork, south Iceland.’ In Arneborg, Jette and Grønnow, Bjarne (eds.), The Dynamics of Northern Societies. PNM, Publications from the National Museum, Studies in Archaeology and History, Volume 10. Copenhagen: 333-344 IBSN: 87-7602-052-5
Landscape changes driven by demography:
Streeter, R., Dugmore, A.J. and Vesteinsson, O. 2012 ‘Plague and landscape resilience in premodern Iceland’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS. 109, 10, 3664-3669 .
Landscape changes driven by cascading impacts:
Dugmore, A.J. and Erskine, C.C. 1994 ‘Local and regional patterns of soil erosion in southern Iceland.’ Münchener Geographische Abhandlungen B12, 63-79.Dugmore, A.J., Newton, A.J., Larsen, G. and Cook, G.T. 2000 ‘Tephrochronology, environmental change and the Norse settlement of Iceland’ Environmental Archaeology 5, 21-34.
McGovern T, H., Vésteinsson, O., Fridriksson, A., Church, M., Lawson, I., Simpson,I. A., Einarsson, A., Dugmore, A. Cook, G., Perdikaris, S. Edwards, K., Thomson, A., Adderley, P., Newton, A., Lucas,G., and Aldred, O. 2007 ‘Landscapes of Settlement in Northern Iceland: Historical ecology of human impact and climate fluctuation on the millennial scale.’ American Anthropologist 109, 27-51
Dugmore, A.J., Gísladóttir, G., Simpson, I.A. and Newton A.J. 2009 ‘Conceptual models of 1,200 years of Icelandic soil erosion reconstructed using tephrochronology’ Journal of the North Atlantic 2, 1-18
Streeter R.T. and Dugmore A.J. 2014 ‘Late-Holocene land surface change in a coupled social-ecological system, southern Iceland: a cross-scale tephrochronology approach.’ Quaternary Science Reviews 86 (2014) 99-114
Dugmore, A.J., McGovern, T.H and Streeter, R. 2014 Landscape legacies of Landnám in Iceland: What has happened to the environment as a result of settlement, why did it happen and what have been some of the consequences. In Harrion, R and Mather, R (eds.) Human ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: a collaborative model of humans and nature through space and time. New York: Lexington Books p195-212.
Landscape change on island-wide scales:
Streeter, Richard, Andrew J Dugmore, Ian T Lawson, Egill Erlendsson and Kevin J Edwards. 2015. The onset of the palaeoanthropocene in Iceland: Changes in complex natural systems. The Holocene, 2015, 25, 10. 1662-1675
Anticipating landscape change:
Streeter, R. and Dugmore, A. J. 2013 ‘Anticipating land surface change’: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS. 110, 15, 5779-5784.