“Social Vulnerability to Climate in the ‘Little Ice Age’: An Example from Central Europe in the Early 1770s”
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
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).
This article seeks to shed light on some of the many possible interactions between changes in rainfall regime, one of the climatic factors with the greatest bearing on the history of human society, and the economic and socio-environmental dynamics of Costa Rica.
The authors seek to ascertain if ASEAN can respond to regional human-induced environmental problems given existing problems of national sovereignty and the interest-based character of ASEAN-type associations, since ASEAN’s goal, in contrast to that of the EU, has been regional cooperation rather than regional integration. The aim is to highlight the status of the respective policy frameworks and exemplify areas in which the regions can learn from one another in the field of air pollution, given its global relevance for climate change.
Through an ethnographic account about the use of an electromagnetic water system in the Amish community, Nicole Welk-Joerger explores the conceptual meeting ground between sacred and secular worldviews in efforts that address the Anthropocene.
This study is based on the empirical investigation of the climate change adaptation measures adopted by the farmers in the Chambal basin.
In this article, environmentalist Hayal Desta considers the impact of agrarian practices and climate change on Lake Ziway, Ethiopia.
In this Springs article, historian Paul S. Sutter considers the “Knowledge Anthropocene” as well as deep time in George Perkins Marsh’s understanding of the construction of Panama’s Darién canal.