Societal Impacts of Historical Droughts

In this topical collection (10 articles)

1. Editorial

   Societal impacts of historical droughts in a warming world

   Nicolas Maughan, Chantal Camenisch, Rudolf Brázdil… Article:74

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2. Original Article

   The great (1506–)1507 drought and its consequences in Hungary in a (Central) European context

   Andrea Kiss Article:50

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   The 1857–1858 drought in Alsace: from water shortage to a socio-political extreme event

   Alexis Metzger, Nicolas Jacob-Rousseau Article:48

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   Extreme heat and drought in 1473 and their impacts in Europe in the context of the early 1470s

   Chantal Camenisch, Rudolf Brázdil, Andrea Kiss… Article:19

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   Water level changes of Lake Nansi in East China during 1758–1902

   Jie Fei, Qing Pei, Yuqi Zhong Article:17

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   300-year drought frames Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age transition in the Near East: new palaeoecological data from Cyprus and Syria

   David Kaniewski, Nick Marriner, Joachim Bretschneider… Pages 2287-2297

7. Original Article

   Changing impacts and societal responses to drought in southwestern Germany since 1800

   Mathilde Erfurt, Rüdiger Glaser, Veit Blauhut Pages 2311-2323

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8. Original Article

   Dry weather fears of Britain’s early ‘industrial’ canal network

   Alice Harvey-Fishenden, Neil Macdonald, James P. Bowen Pages 2325-2337

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   Cannibalism in northern China between 1470 and 1911

   Harry F. Lee Pages 2573-2581

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    The role of drought in agrarian crisis and social change: the famine of the 1890s in south-eastern Africa

    Kathleen Pribyl, David J. Nash, Jørgen Klein… Pages 2683-2695