07 Dec | Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas | Granada
About the job
The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) invites Bachelor graduates in Architecture or Archaeology with a Master's Degree in Architectural Rehabilitation or Master's Degree in Archaeology to express their interest in applying for the offer of a pre-doctoral contract to be carried out within one of the «Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento» of the Spanish «Programa Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación, 2021-2023».
The doctoral thesis will be registered in the History and Arts programme of the University of Granada (UGR) and supervised by Dr. Luis José García Pulido (EEA, CSIC). Within the framework of the project, the person who obtains the pre-doctoral contract will work with a multidisciplinary group, formed by the co-directress of the project, Dr. Carmen Trillo San José (UGR) and by the members of the Research Team.
About the Project "Settlements and landscapes from the Middle Ages in the high mountain valleys of the National Parks of the western Mediterranean: sustainability, resilience, environmental adaptation (MonMedOcc)"
The deep valleys of the high and mid-mountain areas of the far west of the Mediterranean have been commonly chosen throughout history by humans to establish settlements, adapting and altering the environment in a sustainable manner to optimise the use and management of the resources available in these ecosystems. These areas, defined by a succession of reliefs ranging from the high mountains of the Penibetic ranges in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula to the Rif massif in northwest Africa, are therefore an exceptional laboratory for an analysis of the ecosystems they present, their anthropisation, the sustainable management of the water cycle and the economy of the means employed.
The landscape that has come down to us is largely the result of the transformations carried out since the Middle Ages, particularly the adaptation of the slopes to irrigated agriculture by means of terraces, especially at lower levels of the settlements. To this end, hydraulic systems were developed which have been largely preserved to the present day, giving rise to a cultural landscape characterised by its sustainability and resilience. The study of settlement processes over the last millennium allows us to understand the evolution that has taken place in these landscapes as a result of the interaction with the environment by the societies that settled in these great massifs. For this purpose, a series of representative valleys have been selected from the three national parks at this end of the Mediterranean with summits above 2000 meters above sea level: Sierra Nevada (Granada-Almeria, Spain), Sierra de las Nieves (Malaga, Spain) and Talassemtane (Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco).
The project aims to analyse and document the cultural landscapes shaped since the Middle Ages in the high and mid-mountain valleys of these three national parks. The profound transformations to which these environments and their populations have been subjected over the last decades make it more necessary than ever to reveal the innumerable lessons that can be learned from the processes of establishing sustainable and resilient habitats developed in the past, and which are all the more relevant at this time of environmental crisis.
The research is based on the field of material and social history, the study and conservation of vernacular heritage, its adaptation to the environment and the bioclimatic technology used, as well as the detection of circular economy practices developed in the study sites. The project investigates to what extent the social and economic development of these mountain valleys can coexist in a sustainable way with nature, creating a cultural landscape in which there is a symbiosis between human actions and the conservation of biodiversity. It promotes understanding and strengthening the connections between spatial patterns, the regeneration of settlements and how the shift towards a circular economy mentality can be accelerated.
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