Climate change and the peopling of the Southern deserts

Oxford University Centre for the Environment

Scientific Focus

Some of the great deserts of the world lie in the southern hemisphere. This is the third conference that brings together research from the desert regions of South America, Southern Africa and Australia focussing on the history of desert landscapes, desert people and their future, as well as the history of ideas that have shaped eremology in the southern Hemisphere.

Conference Themes

• Southern desert science: a history of ideas.
• Environmental responses to global Quaternary changes.
• Evolution of southern desert environments.
• The peopling of the deserts and the development of desert societies.
• Southern desert futures.

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