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Project Title: Indian Ocean World MCRI – Major Collaborative Research Project

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Project Funder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description:

What problem are we solving?

This project investigates the rise and development of the world’s first “global economy” in the context of human-environment interaction from early times to the present day.

The region under study is the Indian Ocean world (IOW), an arena of primary geo-political importance that includes eastern Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and emerging superpowers China and India. Human-environment interaction is a central theme. Rejecting environmental determinism, the project highlights the impact upon human life of natural factors such as the monsoons, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), cyclones and volcanic eruptions, and human agency in responding to and reshaping the IOW environment and economy.

Team 9 – Mohamed Cheriet – Document Analysis and ICRA:

  • data mining and analysis
  • online collaborative tools for scientific research

This project was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for a period of seven years and a budget of $2.5 million.