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"Explorations in Historical Climatology"
Dagomar Degroot explores the issue of how the changing climate of the Little Ice Age influenced the Dutch Republic during the early modern period.
Dagomar Degroot explores the issue of how the changing climate of the Little Ice Age influenced the Dutch Republic during the early modern period.
Vaclav Smil shows why energy transitions are inherently complex and prolonged affairs, and how ignoring this raises unrealistic expectations that the United States and other global economies can be weaned quickly from a primary dependency on fossil fuels.
Kluiving and Hamel explore why the Anthropocene emerged. They suggest that an analysis of global changes in human niche construction using geoarchaeological data offers new perspectives on the causes and effects of the Anthropocene.