Gaining a holistic understanding of extreme weather, from its physical drivers to its impacts
on society and ecosystems, is key to supporting future risk reduction and preparedness …

The hydromorphic regimes that underpinned Old World river-based civilizations are
reviewed in light of recent research. Notable Holocene climatic changes varied from region …

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

Abstract The Little Ice Age (LIA) is known as one of the coldest stages of the Holocene. Most
records from the Northern Hemisphere show evidence of significantly colder conditions …

There is a strong inter-annual and inter-decadal variability in time series of flood-related
variables, such as intense precipitation, high river discharge, flood magnitude, and flood …

Is there some kind of historical memory and folk wisdom that ensures that a community
remembers about very extreme phenomena, such as catastrophic floods, and learns to …

Despite increasing interest in the relationship between culture transformation and abrupt
climate change, their complexities are poorly understood. The local impact of global …

In the Nile catchment, a growing number of site-and reach-based studies employ
radiocarbon and, more recently, OSL dating to reconstruct Holocene river histories, but there …

This paper examines the interrelationship between the natural and human history of Sicily
over the last 2000 years. It presents a close comparison of the data from the key multi-proxy …

Millennial-and multi-centennial scale climate variability during the Holocene has been well
documented, but its impact on the distribution and timing of extreme river floods has yet to be …