Abrupt geological changes: Causes, effects, and public issues

Berger, Antony R.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2006.01.011

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“…1990; Warren 2005). Environmental changes also occur over a number of spatial scales, which vary from the regional to the local and individual landscapes (Berger 2006).…”

Section: The Nature and Perception Of The Changing Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of and Responses to the Holocene Flooding of the North Sea Lowlands

Leary¹

2009

Oxford J Archaeology

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This paper explores how the drastic landscape changes that took place in the North Sea basin during the Holocene affected the lives of those dwelling in that area. Previous contributions to the discussion of the Holocene inundation of the North Sea have tended to concentrate on the timings. This paper discusses the ways people could have perceived and responded to these events, emphasizing that climate change should not be viewed apart from social factors. It is also argued that sea-level rise was not something externally imposed on communities but an integral part of their world.

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“…1990; Warren 2005). Environmental changes also occur over a number of spatial scales, which vary from the regional to the local and individual landscapes (Berger 2006).…”

Section: The Nature and Perception Of The Changing Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of and Responses to the Holocene Flooding of the North Sea Lowlands

Leary¹

2009

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…For instance, desert sands invaded the ancient city of Chinguetti and homes on the edge of the settlement were abandoned (see Figure 2 of Berger (2006)). This is a rather common present-day situation ( Figure 2).…”

Section: Stabilisation Of Sand Dunes In Mauritaniamentioning

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Sand dune fixation: A solar‐powered Sahara seawater pipeline macroproject

Bădescu

Cathcart²,

Bolonkin³

2008

Land Degrad Dev

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The paper proposes macro-engineering using tactical technologies that stabilize and vegetate barren near-coast sand dune fields with seawater. Seawater that would otherwise, as commonly postulated, increase the Earth-ocean volume. Anthropogenic saturation of the ground with pumped seawater should fix widespread active sand dune fields in deserts (such as the westernmost Sahara). Seawater extraction from the ocean, and its deposition on dune sand, is made via solar-powered pipeline. Stabilisation of one major erg in Mauritania is evaluated as a case study.

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“…In addition, these events may be, in some cases, more pervasive at the societal scale and, retrospectively, seen as catastrophes. At times, it is difficult to separate catastrophes from -normal‖ environmental events, since the environment is never stable, but always undergoing modification: -Not nature in balance, but nature in flux‖ (Berger, 2006). A large cause (environmental hazard) may produce only a small effect (disaster) and vice versa.…”

Section: Definitions and Non-linearity In Societal Responsesmentioning

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From natural hazard to environmental catastrophe: Past and present

Leroy

2006

Quaternary International

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The number of environmental catastrophes is rising, mostly owing to an increase in hydrometeorological hazards. The number of disasters is escalating as the world population grows and people settle in marginal areas. In order to improve preparedness, the geological and archaeological records must be investigated as they hold a wider range of possible events than the much shorter instrumental record. Catastrophes will gain amplitude with rapid onset, long duration, larger affected area, inflexible society and, of cause, convergence of threats. Too often, it seems that today's societies resist learning from the past and therefore tend to repeat errors. A new field of science is emerging: the science of environmental catastrophes, which requires not only robust chronologies to firmly link cause and effect, but also bridges the crossing between the geosciences and social sciences.

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Abrupt geological changes: Causes, effects, and public issues

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Perceptions of and Responses to the Holocene Flooding of the North Sea Lowlands

Perceptions of and Responses to the Holocene Flooding of the North Sea Lowlands

Sand dune fixation: A solar‐powered Sahara seawater pipeline macroproject

From natural hazard to environmental catastrophe: Past and present

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