Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now

In this book the theme of human–environment relations was discussed to increase our understanding of the impacts of geological events and environmental changes on human life in the present and the past. A recurring point was whether understanding deep-time developments and insights into adaptive strategies of past societies holds answers that might help humanity deal with current challenges. Furthermore, which specific implications could be learned from small-scale societies.

Written by researchers with backgrounds in archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and sociology, the book focus on social sciences, humanities and modern disaster studies, applying theories and methods spanning from the natural sciences to science fiction. Therefore, the book is a melting pot of perspectives, fields of research, discourses and methods. All contributors have engaged with the question of how societies may or can live with or through natural hazards, climate change, disasters or crises of different scales and magnitudes.