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ICEglobe · The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History

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Период: 2022-01-10 → 2025-10-20
Финансиране от ЕС: 318 656 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Ледниците в Гренландия и Антарктика се изследват през историята на науката, политиката и технологиите от средата на XX век насам. Това помага да се разбере как миналите геополитически рамки и измервания влияят върху днешните климатични решения и модели.

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The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History

The ICEglobe project addressed the question of how the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets came to be understood as central objects of global scientific concern and climate governance. Although ice sheets now play a critical role in debates on climate change, sea-level rise, and planetary risk, their scientific and political significance is the result of long historical processes that have rarely been examined in an integrated way. The project responded to this gap by investigating the scientific, political, cultural, and technological processes through which ice-sheet knowledge has been produced, circulated, and globalised since the mid-twentieth century. Understanding these processes is important for policy makers and civil society as contemporary climate decisions rely heavily on models, measurements, and assumptions that were shaped by earlier institutional, geopolitical, and technological frameworks. The overall objective of ICEglobe was to provide a historically grounded account of how ice sheets became central to contemporary climate science and governance, and to situate current debates on ice-sheet instability, irreversibility, and intervention within longer trajectories of glaciological research. In its concluding phase, the project also examined how contemporary debates surrounding ice-sheet melt have expanded beyond questions of measurement and prediction to include proposals such as large-scale geoengineering interventions and legal frameworks based on the Rights of Nature. By situating these debates within longer scientific and political histories, ICEglobe demonstrates that they are not unprecedented ruptures, but emerge from evolving assumptions about control, responsibility, and human–environment relations in polar science.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

The proposed project 'The Globalisation of Ice Sheets: a Scientific and Political History' (ICEglobe) charts and questions the historical processes of knowledge production and utilization that have transformed the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from geographical unknowns into objects of global significance within the context of climate change. Forecasting the future of ice sheets, their contribution to sea level rise and its global consequences has become a top priority for governments and international bodies such as the IPCC. Despite the increased resources allocated to the physical study of ice sheets, however, very little attention has been given to their scientific and political history. ICEglobe argues that if our societal and governmental response to ice sheet melt is to be fully informed and effective, there is an urgent need for more nuanced analysis of how ice sheet knowledge has been produced and utilized in the past. Drawing on the archives of the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge (the host), of my secondment partner organisation, and of other repositories in Europe and internationally, the project will research the intertwined processes of scientific and cultural exchange between the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. It will examine the collaborative, technological and geopolitical contexts that have shaped ice sheet knowledge over the same period; it will question how ice sheet modelization and melt have sparked the re-emergence of debates around catastrophism and irreversibility; and it will consider how ice sheets challenge the idea and logic of human-nature reciprocity and coexistence. ICEglobe will be supervised by a Cultural, Political and Historical Geographer specialized in the Polar Regions and will be enriched by the Canditate’s longstanding interdisciplinary interest in the cryosphere. It will result in four papers and the first comprehensive monograph on the scientific and political history of ice sheets.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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