Attempts at combining reconstruction of physical processes with the discursive perceptions of a disaster need an interdisciplinary approach. Current discussions in cultural science have heightened the sensitivity of historians, leading them to seek and elaborate new models and to establish contact with scientific disciplines…
The importation providing the focus of this paper is that of members of the family Mustelidae, specifically weasels, ferrets and stoats.
The article argues that diversified subsistence and a high degree of flexibility were essential for ancient Mesopotamian societies to absorb the many risks that life in this marginal semiarid environment involved.
This paper attempts to assess the extent of domestic livestock loss occasioned by natural hazard especially flood as well as the impact their deaths had on human communities.
This article addresses the direct impacts of war on the physical landscape and why the magnitude of disturbance has increased significantly over the past century.
Only in recent times have serious historical studies been published about floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, storm tides, forest-fires, and other natural disasters and their effects on human life.
Istvan Praet, Carson Fellow from July to December 2011, talks about the perception of catastrophes among the Chachi, the Amerindian inhabitants of Esmeraldas, a lowland region on the Pacific coast.
In this book Mark Carey identifies glacial retreat as a historical reality that has played a substantial role in the political, economic, and social dramas of South America.
The story of two teenage lovers, Hannah and Elmar, who seek refuge following the breakdown of a nuclear power station in Germany.
A small town in northwestern Montana is beset by the worst case of community-wide exposure to a toxic substance in US history.
