A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and
2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in …

Historical climatology is an interdisciplinary field of research encompassing the
reconstruction of past climate and weather from written sources and artifacts, as well the …

A series of recent publications, both scholarly and popular, has identified the physical
environment as a primary historical agent in the Roman Empire's development and decline …

Since the early work on defining and analyzing resilience in domains such as engineering,
ecology and psychology, the concept has gained significant traction in many fields of …

The debate on Global Warming and the concerns about the impact of Global Warming on
future society have sparked interest in past climate change and its impact on past societies …

Non-technical summary Cities in the distant past–as documented by archaeologists and
historians–provide an extensive record of urban successes and failures, yet this information …

Arid environments are suitable for researching the resilience of landscapes, since their
ecological conditions pose continuous water stress to plants, animals, and humans living …