Climate change has become a key environmental narrative of the 21st century. However,
emphasis on the science of climate change has overshadowed studies focusing on human …

Heute fürchten wir, das Klima durch Menschwerk irreversibel zum Schlechten zu ändern.
Jahrhundertelang aber war das Klima ein Faktum, welches zwar durch den Menschen nicht …

Disasters have always accompanied human history. Historical research on disasters is,
however, a recent trend. After a short review of the engagement with disasters in Europe …

This paper reviews multi-proxy paleoclimatic reconstructions with robust age-control derived
from lacustrine, dendrochronological and geomorphological records and characterizes the …

Our understanding of where landslide hazard and impact will be greatest is largely based on
our knowledge of past events. Here, we present a method to supplement existing records of …

Records of grape harvest dates (GHDs) are the oldest and the longest continuous
phenological data in Europe. However, many available series, including the well-known …

The Lakagígar eruption in Iceland during 1783 was followed by the severe winter of
1783/1784, which was characterised by low temperatures, frozen soils, ice-bound …

Proxy records and results of a three dimensional climate model show that European summer
temperatures roughly a millennium ago were comparable to those of the last 25 years of the …

In recent decades, the quantification of flood hydrological characteristics (peak discharge,
hydrograph shape, and runoff volume) from documentary evidence has gained scientific …

This paper presents a temperature reconstruction of the past 1000 years for Central Europe,
based on chronological records. The advantages and limitations of this hermeneutic, text …