“Agricultural Sustainability in the Semi-Arid Near East”
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
An overview of agricultural sustainability in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor (the western part of the Fertile Crescent).
Climate predictions for western Europe probably underestimate the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
In this article, the authors argue that the rise of the Inca would not have been possible without increased crop productivity, which was linked to more favorable climatic conditions.
This paper illustrates, through a series of case-studies, how long-term ecological records (>50 years) can provide a test of predictions and assumptions of ecological processes that are directly relevant to management strategies necessary to retain biological diversity in a changing climate.
A study of social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech Lands during the early 1770s.
This graphic book uses cartoon illustrations to present scientific facts alongside a broad range of actions that we can take against climate change.
Dagomar Degroot explores the issue of how the changing climate of the Little Ice Age influenced the Dutch Republic during the early modern period.
Fiona Cameron, Carson Fellow from August 2011 until March 2012, talks about her research on ‘Museums, Education, and Climate Change’ at the intersections between science, technology and nature.
Anya Zilberstein, Carson Fellow from February 2012 until July 2012, talks about her project on prison gardens, especially the work of Count Rumford (Benjamin Thompson), who designed Munich’s English Garden in the late eighteenth century.
This book seeks to explain what science and politics are in the context of environmental policymaking and how the interplay of science and politics influences international environmental policy.