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Overview

Appraising Risk is a project dedicated to exploring the interface and impact of environment, ecology, and humans in key moments across the Indian Ocean World.

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Info About IOWC

The Appraising Risk Partner is an international collaboration of scholars and researchers dedicated to exploring the critical role of climatic crises in the past and future of the Indian Ocean World. With generous support from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the partnership seeks to create a comprehensive spatial and temporal database of human-environment interaction and interdependence during periods of climatic change.

Our Recent Updates

Brownell, Gone to Ground

Jalais, Tigers, Tiger Food, and Mental Health in the Sundarbans

Goldstein, Indonesia’s Peatlands and Environmental Politics

Boswell, Ocean Cultures and Heritage

Günaydı, Contextualising environmental contingencies

Campbell, The Travels of Robert Lyall

McQuade, A Genealogy of Terrorism

Schottenhammer, Maritime Disasters, Risk Appraisals, and exchanges of Medicinal Knowledge in maritime East Asia

Xu Zhexin, Tang-Song transition era maritime activities in E and SE Asia

Galvin, Sustainable organic farming and questions of value

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