Megadroughts in the Common Era and the Anthropocene

BI Cook, JE Smerdon, ER Cook, AP Williams… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

Hydrological drought explained

AF Van Loon - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Drought is a complex natural hazard that impacts ecosystems and society in many ways.
Many of these impacts are associated with hydrological drought (drought in rivers, lakes …

Karst water resources in a changing world: Review of hydrological modeling approaches

A Hartmann, N Goldscheider, T Wagener… - Reviews of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Karst regions represent 7–12% of the Earth's continental area, and about one
quarter of the global population is completely or partially dependent on drinking water from …

Re-framing the threat of global warming: an empirical causal loop diagram of climate change, food insecurity and societal collapse

CE Richards, RC Lupton, JM Allwood - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
There is increasing concern that climate change poses an existential risk to humanity.
Understanding these worst-case scenarios is essential for good risk management. However …

Development and disintegration of Maya political systems in response to climate change

DJ Kennett, SFM Breitenbach, VV Aquino, Y Asmerom… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The role of climate change in the development and demise of Classic Maya civilization (300
to 1000 CE) remains controversial because of the absence of well-dated climate and …

[HTML][HTML] Societal collapse: A literature review

D Brozović - Futures, 2023 - Elsevier
Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of
human civilization, the topic of societal (civilization) collapse has emerged as especially …

Twenty years of XRF core scanning marine sediments: what do geochemical proxies tell us?

RG Rothwell, I Croudace - Micro-XRF Studies of Sediment Cores …, 2015 - Springer
XRF core scanners, with their rapid and non-destructive analytical capability, have now
been used for two decades in the analysis of marine sediments. Initially they were used to …

[图书][B] The Maya forest garden: Eight millennia of sustainable cultivation of the tropical woodlands

A Ford, R Nigh - 2016 - books.google.com
The conventional wisdom says that the devolution of Classic Maya civilization occurred
because its population grew too large and dense to be supported by primitive neotropical …

Contribution of anthropology to the study of climate change

J Barnes, M Dove, M Lahsen, A Mathews… - Nature Climate …, 2013 - nature.com
Understanding the challenge that climate change poses and crafting appropriate adaptation
and mitigation mechanisms requires input from the breadth of the natural and social …

Environmental roots of the Late Bronze Age crisis

D Kaniewski, E Van Campo, J Guiot, S Le Burel, T Otto… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The Late Bronze Age world of the Eastern Mediterranean, a rich linkage of Aegean,
Egyptian, Syro-Palestinian, and Hittite civilizations, collapsed famously 3200 years ago and …