Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History

Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History 

Editors:

• Adam Izdebski,
• John Haldon,
• Piotr Filipkowski

The only collective multidisciplinary survey of historical responses to risk, mitigation and resilience. International group of specialists in several fields working collaboratively. Directly responds to current concerns about relevance of historical lessons for contemporary policy. This book is open access which means you have free and unlimited access

Part of the book series: Risk, Systems and Decisions (RSD)

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• About this book
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1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: What Sort of Past Does Our Future Need?

   • Adam Izdebski, John Haldon, Piotr Filipkowski

   Pages 1-5Open Access

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3. History and Public Policy in the Era of Planetary Crisis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. What Stories Should Historians Be Telling at the Dawn of the Anthropocene?

      • Adam Izdebski

      Pages 9-19Open Access

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   3. The Anthropocene Contract. What Kind of Historian–Reader Agreement Does Environmental Historiography Need?

      • Jakub Muchowski

      Pages 21-31Open Access

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   4. History and Utopian Thinking in the Era of the Anthropocene

      • Dariusz Brzeziński

      Pages 33-43Open Access

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   5. Potentials and Risks of Futurology: Lessons from Late Socialist Poland

      • Lukas Becht

      Pages 45-57Open Access

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   6. Globalization as Adaptive Complexity: Learning from Failure

      • Miguel Centeno, Peter Callahan, Paul Larcey, Thayer Patterson

      Pages 59-74Open Access

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   7. Disjunctures of Practice and the Problems of Collapse

      • Rowan Jackson, Steven Hartman, Benjamin Trump, Carole Crumley, Thomas McGovern, Igor Linkov et al.

      Pages 75-108Open Access

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4. Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109

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   2. Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from Medieval Volcanic Eruptions for the Anthropocene

      • Martin Bauch

      Pages 111-122Open Access

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   3. A Perfect Tsunami? El Nino, War and Resilience on Aceh, Sumatra

      • Emmanuel Kreike

      Pages 123-144Open Access

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   4. Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History

      • William Fitzsimons

      Pages 145-159Open Access

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   5. Resilience at the Edge: Strategies of Small-Scale Societies for Long-Term Sustainable Living in Dryland Environments

      • Arlene Rosen

      Pages 161-176Open Access

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   6. Beyond Boom and Bust: Climate in the History of Medieval Steppe Empires (C. 550-1350 CE)

      • Nicola Di Cosmo

      Pages 177-189Open Access

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   7. Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa

      • Kathryn de Luna, Matthew Pawlowicz, Jeffery Fleisher

      Pages 191-204Open Access

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5. Crisis and Recovery

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery

      • Luke Kemp, Eric H. Cline

      Pages 207-223Open Access

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   3. Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece

      • James M. L. Newhard, Eric H. Cline

      Pages 225-235Open Access

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   4. Managing the Roman Empire for the Long Term: Risk Assessment and Management Policy in the Fifth to Seventh Centuries

      • John Haldon, Hugh Elton, Adam Izdebski

      Pages 237-246Open Access