via Inquirer, 03 August 2022: A recently-convened PEMSEA workshop taking a multidisciplinary (including archaeological) look at climate change and disasters in Southeast Asia.
More than 20 international scholars and academics from various fields of disciplines – archeology, anthropology, environmental history, geography, and indigenous studies – recently convened in person in Caramoan, Camarines Sur, to address pressing climate change and disaster issues in Southeast Asia.
Scholars came from Taiwan Indonesia, China, Philippines and the United States for the “Indigenous Landscapes of Taiwan and Southeast Asia: Last 700 years” conference.
The two-day workshops at the PSU Caramoan campus, helped develop a multidisciplinary framework in understanding natural and anthropogenic changes in the Early Modern Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
By focusing on local responses to both global and local ecological change, the workshops’ bottom-up perspectives moved away from Western colonialist view of Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
Source: Int’l scholars probe SE Asians’ responses to climate, disaster issues in last 700 years
