Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

Buried in water, burdened by nature—Resilience carried the Iron Age people through Fimbulvinter

(2020) Markku Oinonen et al.   PLoS One

Climate and social change at the start of the Late Antique Little Ice Age

(2020) Peter N Peregrine   HOLOCENE

Ocean/atmosphere interaction and Malthusian catastrophes on the northern fringe of the Asian summer monsoon region in China, 1368–1911

(2020) Harry F. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Social Resilience to Climate Change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age: A Replication Study

(2020) Peter N. Peregrine   Weather Climate and Society

Prospects and pitfalls in integrating volcanology and archaeology: A review

(2020) Felix Riede et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

Climate and society in European history

(2020) Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Is the past key to the present? Observations of cultural continuity and resilience reconstructed from geoarchaeological records

(2019) Kathleen Nicoll et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Correlating paleoclimate time series: Sources of uncertainty and potential pitfalls

(2019) Jasper G. Franke et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

No evidence for globally coherent warm and cold periods over the preindustrial Common Era

(2019) Raphael Neukom et al.   NATURE

Consistent multidecadal variability in global temperature reconstructions and simulations over the Common Era

(2019)   Nature Geoscience

Climate change and cultural resilience in late pre-Columbian Amazonia

(2019) Jonas Gregorio de Souza et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

2,100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes

(2019) Christine M. Åkesson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings

(2018) Jan Esper et al.   DENDROCHRONOLOGIA

Climatic shocks associate with innovation in science and technology

(2018) Carsten K. W. De Dreu et al.   PLoS One

History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change

(2018) John Haldon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Archaeological sites as Distributed Long-term Observing Networks of the Past (DONOP)

(2018) George Hambrecht et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Sampling bias in climate–conflict research

(2018) Courtland Adams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Climate change and society in the 15th to 18th centuries

(2018) Dagomar Degroot   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Tree-ring-based drought variability in the eastern region of the Silk Road and its linkages to the Pacific Ocean

(2018) Changfeng Sun et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

A review of climate reconstructions from terrestrial climate archives covering the first millennium AD in northwestern Europe

(2018) Dana F.C. Riechelmann et al.   QUATERNARY RESEARCH

Climate change studies and the human sciences

(2017) Poul Holm et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Medieval Iceland, Greenland, and the New Human Condition: A case study in integrated environmental humanities

(2017) Steven Hartman et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Dark Ages Cold Period: A literature review and directions for future research

(2017) Samuli Helama et al.   HOLOCENE

Limited Late Antique cooling

(2017) Samuli Helama et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records

(2017) Sébastien Guillet et al.   Nature Geoscience

Resilience theory in archaeological practice – An annotated review

(2017) Marcel Bradtmöller et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

(2017) Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

(2017) Julien Emile-Geay et al.   Scientific Data

European summer temperatures since Roman times

(2016) J Luterbacher et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam

(2016) Christophe Béné et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Reconstructing crop yield variability in Finland: Long-term perspective of the cultivation history on the agricultural periphery since ad 760

(2016) Heli Huhtamaa et al.   HOLOCENE

Stalagmite multi-proxy evidence of wet and dry intervals in northeastern Namibia: Linkage to latitudinal shifts of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and changing solar activity from AD 1400 to 1950

(2016) Ny Riavo G Voarintsoa et al.   HOLOCENE

Multidecadal climate variability over northern France during the past 500 years and its relation to large-scale atmospheric circulation

(2016) B. Dieppois et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

(2016) Ulf Büntgen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Demographic impact of climate change on northwestern China in the late imperial era

(2016) Harry F. Lee et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

African hydroclimatic variability during the last 2000 years

(2016) David J. Nash et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Byzantium: A review of the evidence on climatic fluctuations, economic performance and societal change

(2016) Elena Xoplaki et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

The environmental, archaeological and historical evidence for regional climatic changes and their societal impacts in the Eastern Mediterranean in Late Antiquity

(2016) Adam Izdebski et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Realising consilience: How better communication between archaeologists, historians and natural scientists can transform the study of past climate change in the Mediterranean

(2016) Adam Izdebski et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

(2016) Rob Wilson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Social and economic impacts of climate

(2016) T. A. Carleton et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change decouples drought from early wine grape harvests in France

(2016) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   Nature Climate Change

Fragility of reconstructed temperature patterns over the Common Era: Implications for model evaluation

(2015) Jianghao Wang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network

(2015) Lea Schneider et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production

(2015) Marshall Burke et al.   NATURE

Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years

(2015) Markus Stoffel et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate challenges, vulnerabilities, and food security

(2015) Margaret C. Nelson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia

(2014) N. Pederson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared socioeconomic pathways

(2013) Brian C. O’Neill et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe

(2013) Christopher M. Gerrard et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Multidecadal variability in East African hydroclimate controlled by the Indian Ocean

(2013) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   NATURE

A petrographic and geochemical record of climate change over the last 4600years from a northern Namibia stalagmite, with evidence of abruptly wetter climate at the beginning of southern Africa's Iron Age

(2013) Hillary R. Sletten et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Source of the great A.D. 1257 mystery eruption unveiled, Samalas volcano, Rinjani Volcanic Complex, Indonesia

(2013) F. Lavigne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identifying coherent spatiotemporal modes in time-uncertain proxy paleoclimate records

(2012) Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age triggered by volcanism and sustained by sea-ice/ocean feedbacks

(2012) Gifford H. Miller et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Critical perspectives on historical collapse

(2012) K. W. Butzer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collapse, environment, and society

(2012) K. W. Butzer   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate and history: a critical review of historical climatology and climate change historiography

(2012) Mark Carey   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Tree-ring based reconstruction of drought variability (1615–2009) in the Kongtong Mountain area, northern China

(2011) Keyan Fang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis

(2011) D. D. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

(2011) U. Buntgen et al.   SCIENCE

The variability of European floods since AD 1500

(2010) Rüdiger Glaser et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Late-twentieth-century warming in Lake Tanganyika unprecedented since AD 500

(2010) Jessica E. Tierney et al.   Nature Geoscience

Periodic climate cooling enhanced natural disasters and wars in China during AD 10-1900

(2010) Z. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium

(2010) E. R. Cook et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change and violent conflict in Europe over the last millennium

(2009) Richard S. J. Tol et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

A thousand-year record of temperature variations for Germany and Central Europe based on documentary data

(2009) Rüdiger Glaser et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

The bigger picture: towards integrating palaeoclimate and environmental data with a history of societal change

(2009) C. J. Caseldine et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Megadroughts in North America: placing IPCC projections of hydroclimatic change in a long-term palaeoclimate context

(2009) Edward R. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

(2009) M. B. Burke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

European floods during the winter 1783/1784: scenarios of an extreme event during the ‘Little Ice Age’

(2009) Rudolf Brázdil et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

A Test of Climate, Sun, and Culture Relationships from an 1810-Year Chinese Cave Record

(2008) P. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE