Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

D Degroot, K Anchukaitis, M Bauch, J Burnham… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

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 …

[图书][B] Droughts: a global assesment

DA Wilhite - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Drought draws together contributions from over 75 leading international researchers in the
field to present the most comprehensive body of research on the physical and social …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Structure and origin of Holocene cold events

H Wanner, O Solomina, M Grosjean, SP Ritz… - Quaternary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
The present interglacial, the Holocene, spans the period of the last 11,700 years. It has
sustained the growth and development of modern society. The millennial-scale decreasing …

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 …

Mid-to Late Holocene climate change: an overview

H Wanner, J Beer, J Bütikofer, TJ Crowley… - Quaternary Science …, 2008 - Elsevier
The last 6000years are of particular interest to the understanding of the Earth System
because the boundary conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in …

The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras

DW Stahle, ER Cook, DJ Burnette, J Villanueva… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Mexico has suffered a long history and prehistory of severe sustained drought. Drought over
Mexico is modulated by ocean-atmospheric variability in the Atlantic and Pacific, raising the …

[图书][B] Ecology of fear: Los Angeles and the imagination of disaster

M Davis - 1998 - books.google.com
In this book, Mike Davis unravels the secret political history of disaster, real and imaginary,
in Southern California. As he surveys the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of …

[图书][B] Paleolimnology: the history and evolution of lake systems

AS Cohen - 2003 - books.google.com
This text, written by a leading researcher in the field, describes the origin and formation of
lakes in order to give context to the question of how lacustrine deposits form. It explains the …