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Author Izdebski, Adam, editor.

Title Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises : What the Future Needs from History

Imprint Cham Springer Nature 2022
LOCATION CALL NO.
 Electronic Book
Collation 1 electronic resource (347 pages)
Series Open Access eBooks from OAPEN Library
Restrictions on Access Open Access star Unrestricted online access
Summary This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now facing? By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems, we contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning and consider how environmental and climatic changes, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes, impacted human responses in the past. We ask how societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity, and whether a better historical understanding of these relationships can inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude, such as adapting to climate change.
Note Georgetown University
Princeton University
Terms Governing Use Creative Commons by/4.0/ cc http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language English
Subject Electronic resources.
Electronic books.
Climate Change
Ecological change
History
Social History
sustainable development
Alt Author Filipkowski, Piotr, editor.
Haldon, John, editor.
ISBN 978-3-030-94137-6
9783030941376
ISBN/ISSN 10.1007/978-3-030-94137-6