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

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 …

This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from a historical
perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces the field of 'disaster studies' to …

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

Tipping points have become a key concept in research on climate change, indicating points
of abrupt transition in biophysical systems as well as transformative changes in adaptation …

Inequality of wealth and its associated power has varied greatly over human history. It is
often thought that the main levelers of inequality were natural disasters such as epidemics or …

Past volcanic eruptions and their climatic impacts have been linked increasingly with co-
occurring societal crises–like crop failures and famines–in recent research. Yet, as many of …

This article assesses the development and current state of climate history research
conducted in the five Nordic countries and Estonia. The possible societal impacts of past …

Major epidemics of plague in Germany and France in the early eighteenth century and in
Moscow in the 1770s brought an end to a series of epidemic disasters in Europe which had …

The study of collapse in archaeology and history has continued to grow and develop in the
last decade and is a respectable target of investigation in and beyond these fields …