8 – Contemporary Policy

Team Lead: Julia Verne

Our policy team focuses on the interaction between data collection, historical knowledge, and contemporary policy in areas such as environment, health, and historical preservation.

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.