Climate, culture and weather

Endfield, Georgina H.; Veale, Lucy

doi:10.4324/9781315461458-1

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“…While the majority of social and economic systems have evolved over time to accommodate some deviations from "normal" weather conditions, this rarely holds true for extreme events such as severe and/or protracted droughts (Endfield and Veale, 2018).…”

Section: Perceptions Of and Spiritual Approaches To Droughtmentioning

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Documentary data and the study of the past droughts: an overview of the state of the art worldwide

Brázdil

Kiss

Luterbacher

et al. 2018

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Abstract. The use of documentary evidence to investigate past climatic trends and events has become a recognised approach in recent decades. This contribution presents the state of the art in its application to droughts. The range of documentary evidence is very wide, including: general annals, chronicles, and memoirs, diaries kept by missionaries, travellers and those specifically interested in the weather, the records kept by administrators tasked with keeping accounts and other financial and economic records, legal-administrative evidence, religious sources, letters, marketplace and shopkeepers' songs, newspapers and journals, pictographic evidence, chronograms, epigraphic evidence, early instrumental observations, society commentaries, compilations and books, and historical-climatological databases. These come from many parts of the world. This variety of documentary information is evaluated with respect to the reconstruction of hydroclimatic conditions (precipitation, drought frequency and drought indices). Documentary-based drought reconstructions are then addressed in terms of long-term spatio-temporal fluctuations, major drought events, relationships with external forcing and large-scale climate drivers, socio-economic impacts and human responses. Documentary-based drought series are also discussed from the viewpoint of spatio-temporal variability for certain continents, and their employment together with hydroclimate reconstructions from other proxies (in particular tree-rings) is discussed. Finally, conclusions are drawn and challenges for the future use of documentary evidence in the study of droughts are presented.

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Section: Perceptions Of and Spiritual Approaches To Droughtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Documentary data and the study of the past droughts: an overview of the state of the art worldwide

Brázdil

Kiss

Luterbacher

et al. 2018

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“…Weather, like climate, has histories and possible futures, and current weather events all have their origins in the cumulative emissions of the past and present (Endfield & Veale 2018; Malm 2016; McKibben 1989). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (2014), for instance, had already identified recent extreme weather changes as a consequence of longer-term anthropogenic climate change.…”

Section: Relating To Climate Through Weathermentioning

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“…Analysing the ‘domestication’ of weather through new measurements and new technologies (e.g. Rayner 2009; Readfern 2020; Janković 2000), the long-term social, economic and ecological consequences of extreme weather events (Brönnimann et al 2018; Endfield & Veale 2018 and chapters therein; Rohr 2009) and the ‘localization’ of past and present weather through local cultural meanings comprise some of the more dominant lines of research. Central also to much of this work have been discussions around the attachment of memories to specific places and the memorialization of place during weather events.…”

Section: Weathering Historymentioning

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Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study

Petek-Sargeant¹,

Lane²

2021

CAJ

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Research on the social dimensions of climate change is increasingly focused on people's experiences, values and relations to the environment as a means to understand how people interpret and adapt to changes. However, a particular challenge has been making seemingly temporally and geographically distant climate change more immediate and local so as to prompt behavioural change. Environmental humanists, anthropologists and historians have tried to address the challenge through analysis of the experiences, philosophies and memories of weather. Archaeology, commonly preoccupied by hard science approaches to climate change, has largely been absent from this conversation. Nevertheless, with its insights into material outcomes of human experiences and relations, it can become integral to the discussion of ‘weathering’ climate change and historicizing weather. Here, drawing on the subtleties of responses by Ilchamus communities in Kenya and using a mix of historical and archaeological sources, we highlight their experiences of weather since the end of the Little Ice Age and explore the potential of building archaeologies of weather.

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“…Weather extremes, often associated with water hazards on land or at sea, have an especially enduring impact on popular memory. The analysis of (collective and individual) memory through oral history, photography, and public memorialization can be complemented with documentary sources in order to provide insights into these events and “re‐culture” the weather (Anderson, ; Endfield & Veale, ; Hulme, ). Such research seeks to reveal the deeply cultural and personal dimensions of “natural disasters,” as Emily O'Gorman observes, “Our understandings of events as disasters are directly influenced by where and how we live and how we understand our places” (O'Gorman, , p. 3).…”

Section: Living With Water and Riskmentioning

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Climate, weather, and water in history

Morgan

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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This essay integrates the largely separate trajectories of climate and water histories, their distinct historiographies, and their different methods and expertise. Informed by the human-nature insights of environmental history and historical geography, this paper identifies four intersections between histories of climate and water: first, conceptualizations of the climate and hydrological systems; second, adaptations to climate and hydrological variability and change; third, weather control; and finally, water over time. These particular intersections shed light on shared concerns for human relations to water and climate across different spatial and temporal scales; the development and function of networks of environmental knowledge; the formation and impact of environmental imaginaries; and the emergence of particular cultures of risk and resilience. The English-language histories of climate and water to which I refer pertain largely to the study of the 19th and 20th centuries in relation to the spread of European and North American empires. Histories of water, I argue, offer more personal and localized insights into histories of climate and climate change.

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Climate, culture and weather

Cited by 8 publications

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Documentary data and the study of the past droughts: an overview of the state of the art worldwide

Documentary data and the study of the past droughts: an overview of the state of the art worldwide

Weathering Climate Change in Archaeology: Conceptual Challenges and an East African Case Study

Climate, weather, and water in history

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