Dr. Patrick Willett

Research Topics

 

My research focuses on the social and economic dynamics of land-use practices in the context of long-term environmental change. I am currently working on modeling the impacts of human land uses in the past on subsequent agricultural potentials in the Eastern Mediterranean and how this can inform the sustainable maintenance of productive lands in the face of contemporary climate change. The research utilizes methods of archaeological prospection and remote sensing, predictive modelling, and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction based on palynology.   

 

Current Project

 

Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Using shifting archetypes of ideal cropland to reconstruct patterns of past land use (FWO funded)