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oapen-20.500.12657-579052022-08-18T03:06:23Z Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises Izdebski, Adam Haldon, John Filipkowski, Piotr History Climate Change sustainable development Social History Ecological change bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAF Ecological science, the Biosphere bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now facing? By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems, we contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning and consider how environmental and climatic changes, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes, impacted human responses in the past. We ask how societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity, and whether a better historical understanding of these relationships can inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude, such as adapting to climate change. 2022-08-17T20:13:57Z 2022-08-17T20:13:57Z 2022 book ONIX_20220817_9783030941376_7 9783030941376 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57905 eng Risk, Systems and Decisions application/pdf n/a 978-3-030-94137-6.pdf https://link.springer.com/978-3-030-94137-6 Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-030-94137-6 10.1007/978-3-030-94137-6 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 3ce1a7cc-69b5-4f38-8163-8d8084290628 d9a4e2be-b89d-4505-8aff-e608b4c9d806 f0ccc585-ab94-4009-8b95-829b0c7696a2 ffc01c62-9d5f-4ebd-98a3-2ce064321c13 995443f1-6c4a-4c00-a783-8d8bbc3b2115 9783030941376 Springer 347 Cham [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] Georgetown University Princeton University Princeton open access
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This is an open access book. Histories we tell never emerge in a vacuum, and history as an academic discipline that studies the past is highly sensitive to the concerns of the present and the heated debates that can divide entire societies. But does the study of the past also have something to teach us about the future? Can history help us in coping with the planetary crisis we are now facing? By analyzing historical societies as complex adaptive systems, we contribute to contemporary thinking about societal-environmental interactions in policy and planning and consider how environmental and climatic changes, whether sudden high impact events or more subtle gradual changes, impacted human responses in the past. We ask how societal perceptions of such changes affect behavioral patterns and explanatory rationalities in premodernity, and whether a better historical understanding of these relationships can inform our response to contemporary problems of similar nature and magnitude, such as adapting to climate change.
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