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Today I realized a childhood dream by becoming lead author of an article in @nature. It coins a new term – the “History of Climate and Society” (HCS) – to refer to the interdisciplinary study of the past impacts of #ClimateChange on people. #EnvHist 1/11 nature.com/articles/s4158…
It offers a critique of the field as it has been pursued to date, presents a new research framework for HCS, and shows how the application of that framework can permit new scholarship into the resilience of populations that faced modest, pre-industrial climate change. 2/11
It then identifies five “pathways” that allowed populations to endure and even exploit these changes. I hope that this publication will encourage HCS scholars to explore more diverse consequences of climate changes on past populations - beyond the rise and fall of societies. 3/11
