The sixteen contributions in this volume of RCC Perspectives offer diverse insights and concerns about the future of the field from those working in environmental history and related disciplines.
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Autumn 2006 was by far the warmest autumn on record in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
In this article, the authors argue that climate change in Japan is clearly shown for temperature over 100 years (1901–2000).
A review of how we can learn from the past about climate-human-environment interactions at the present time and in the future.
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
Climate predictions for western Europe probably underestimate the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
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.
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.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
