Review of Global Environmental History: 10,000 BC to AD 2000 by Ian Gordon Simmons
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Economic historian Paolo Malanima reviews a work of ambitious scale by geographer Ian Gordon Simmons.
Covers the content of this issue’s analysis of modern environmental systems, and how these systems have changed over time.
A report on the activities and debates at the fifth World Water Forum held at Istanbul in March 2009.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
A review of how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time and in the future.
Autumn 2006 was by far the warmest autumn on record in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
This paper illustrates, through a series of case-studies, how long-term ecological records (>50 years) can provide a test of predictions and assumptions of ecological processes that are directly relevant to management strategies necessary to retain biological diversity in a changing climate.
In this article, the authors argue that climate change in Japan is clearly shown for temperature over 100 years (1901–2000).
In this article, the authors argue that the rise of the Inca would not have been possible without increased crop productivity, which was linked to more favorable climatic conditions.