Description |
1 online resource ( ix, 347 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text/computer/online resource/text file |
Subject |
Climatic changes -- Government policy.
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Environmental policy.
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Series |
Risk, systems and decisions, 2626-6725 |
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Risk, systems and decisions (Series), 2626-6725
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Contents |
1. Introduction: what sort of past does our future need? -- Part I: History and public policy in the era of planetary crisis -- 2. What stories should historians be telling at the dawn of the Anthropocene? -- 3. The Anthropocene contract. What kind of historian-reader agreement does environmental historiography need? -- 4. History and utopian thinking in the era of the Anthropocene -- 5. Potentials and risks of futurology: lessons from late socialist Poland -- 6. Globalization as adaptive complexity: learning from failure -- 7. Disjunctures of practice and the problems of collapse -- Part II: Climate change -- 8. Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from medieval volcanic eruptions for the Anthropocene -- 9. A perfect tsunami? El Nino, War and Resilience on Aceh, Sumatra -- 10. Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History -- 11. Resilience at the Edge: Strategies of Small-Scale Societies for Long-Term Sustainable Living in Dryland Environments -- 12. Beyond Boom and Bust: Climate in the History of Medieval Steppe Empires (c. 550-1350 CE) -- 13. Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa -- Part III: Crisis and recovery -- 14. Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery -- 15. Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece -- 16. Managing the Roman Empire for the long term: risk assessment and management policy in the fifth to seventh centuries -- 17. Success and Failure in the Norse North Atlantic: Origins, Pathway Divergence, Extinction and Survival -- 18.Resilience of coupled socio-ecological systems: historic rice fields of the U.S. south -- 19. The Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Early Medieval Pandemic -- Part IV: Migration and the environment -- 20. The integration of settlers into existing socio-environmental settings: reclaiming the Greek lands after the Late Medieval crisis -- 21. Eastward migration in European history: the interplay of economic and environmental opportunities -- 22. The Environmental Dimension of Migration: the case of Post-WWII Poland -- Part V: Conclusions -- 23. Concluding remarks: interdisciplinarity and public policy. |
Note |
Access limited to University of Wyoming-affiliated patrons. |
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Open Access. |
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Open access. GW5XE |
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Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web. |
Add Author |
Filipkowski, Piotr, editor.
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Haldon, John F., editor.
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Izdebski, Adam, editor.
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SpringerLink (Online service)
Earth & Environmental Science 2022.
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LC # |
HC79.E5 P47 2022 |
Dewey # |
363.7/0561 |
ISBN |
303094137X |
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9783030941369 |
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9783030941376 |
Other # |
10.1007/978-3-030-94137-6 doi |
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