Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, "Histoire et Climat"
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
An early example of French historian Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie’s work on the impact of climate change on human history.
Minstrels (or waits) in the 15th century Port of Sandwich walked the streets at night and woke mariners with information about wind directions…
Over the Colonial period, prolonged drought episodes had severe impacts on all sectors of society, particularly indigenous rural populations. This paper employs a variety of colonial historical records to document the nature and extent of these impacts within the context of prevailing social, political and economic conditions.
As the millennium approaches it seems that environmental historians are increasingly drawn to the task of writing world history…
Laurel Peacock on Brenda Hillman’s ecopoetic practice and how we can shift our understanding of our affective relationship to the environment.
Hana Librová discusses the disparate roots of voluntary modesty.
In their article, John O’Neill and Clive L. Splash analyse how local processes of envrionmental decision-making can enter into good policy-making processes.
What does the possibility of an early end to human existence as part of a more general biotic extinction mean for the latter day writing of history?
This study draws on economic and environmental historical approaches to explore the consumption-conservation nexus in the use of African natural resources. It explores environmental changes resulting from a range of interactive factors, including climate, population, disease, vegetation and technology.
The aim of the paper is to present a summary of the current scholarship on the climate of the Carpathian Basin in the Middle Ages by drawing upon research from the natural sciences, archaeology and history.