Abstract This introduction to a special issue of Climatic Change argues that it is timely and welcome to intensify historical research into climate change and climate as factors of history….
Political Ecology – Deconstructing Capital and Territorializing Life Critiques the dominant geopolitics of “sustainable development” Explores how the development of eco-territorial conflicts has affected environmental thinking Introduces new concepts for…
This interview was conducted as a part of the podcast ‘Mergers & Acquisitions’ by the Society of Economic Anthropology, and can be watched in full below:
IHOPE Steering Committee member Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, of the History Department at Stockholm University and BOLIN Climate Centre affiliate has recently published a paper on the historical impact of climate…
Call for applications, Ph.D. course: ‘The Political Ecology of Pandemics’ Date: 9 – 11 August, 2021 Venue: Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM), University of Oslo, Norway Organised by: Centre for Development and the Environment, The Norwegian…
What are the causal links between changes in climate and in human societies? In a new paper in WIREs Climate Change, Charpentier Ljungqvist et al discuss human history and past…
Cambridge University Press, 2019 (Open Access) https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/811395DC3A8D82EAD39C45657B2FD1AD/9781108498692AR.pdf/Social_Sustainability__Past_and_Future.pdf?event-type=FTLA In his book, Sander van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socioeconomic dynamic that has generated the…
“A year ago, ‘Widening Horizons’ was decided on as the motto of the 27th EAA Annual Meeting, as it combined the ‘sense of place’ of Kiel and its position in…
Dana Lepofsky tells us about her IHOPE project Herring School and Clam Garden, the reality faced by local Pacific coastal communities, the past, the future, and much more in this…
Learn about the legacy, life and place in the world of Alexander von Humboldt , by Stephen T. Jackson, from the US Geological Survey, Southwest and South Central Climate Adaptation…