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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2012-02-03
    Description: The climate has always been subject to changes, and these have often caused trouble and posed unexpected threats. People have had to adapt by finding socially, culturally and economically adequate answers. Based on authoritative scientific and historical studies, this book explores the civilizations that have called the Mediterranean their home during the last 3,000 years, and makes their history accessible to a wide readership. Aided by a group of researchers, the authors aim not only to delineate climatic trends and their social repercussions through the centuries, but also to address the ideas and theories set forth by thinkers since time immemorial. This book gives voice to ancient Greek and Latin philosophers, medieval encyclopedists (Christian and Arab), intellectuals of the modern era and the Enlightenment, and exponents of nineteenth-century positivism. Ancient and recent Mediterranean civilizations alike concerned themselves with weather forecasts, the climate and health, and the relationship between climate and the environment: they have elaborated on these issues and come up with answers since antiquity. Casting light on largely unexplored aspects of history, this journey through time works its way to the present global warming. The new challenge that lies before us is best assessed in a perspective of “historical climate change,” to which the doings of humankind are adding great momentum.
    Description: Published
    Description: 3.7. Dinamica del clima e dell'oceano
    Description: open
    Keywords: climate history ; climatic change ; historical Mediterranean cultures ; social answers ; 01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.02. Climate
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: book
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Il clima è sempre cambiato e i mutamenti hanno causato danni e rischi non previsti, che hanno richiesto nuovi adattamenti e risposte adeguate sul piano sociale, culturale ed economico. Gli autori, coadiuvati da un gruppo di ricercatori, hanno esplorato la storia degli ultimi tre millenni delle civiltà mediterranee, presentando un excursus divulgativo, basato su autorevoli studi scientifici e storici. Lo scopo è di delineare in modo complessivo non solo l’andamento dei mutamenti climatici e le loro ripercussioni sociali, ma anche le idee e le teorie sul clima, dai filosofi dell’antica Grecia, agli scrittori latini, agli enciclopedisti medievali, cristiani e arabi, fino al pensiero di età moderna, all’illuminismo e al positivismo ottocentesco. Le previsioni del tempo, il clima e la salute, il rapporto fra clima e ambiente sono temi presenti in tutte le civiltà mediterranee antiche e recenti: su questi temi le culture hanno sempre elaborato interpretazioni e risposte. Questo “viaggio” nel passato, che mette in luce una storia inedita e in gran parte da esplorare, giunge fino all’attuale riscaldamento globale. Questa nuova sfida è meglio valutabile in una prospettiva di “mutamento climatico storico”, a cui l’azione antropica sta aggiungendo un formidabile acceleratore.
    Description: Published
    Description: 3.7. Dinamica del clima e dell'oceano
    Description: open
    Keywords: climate history ; climatic change ; historical Mediterranean cultures ; social answers ; 01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.02. Climate
    Repository Name: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV)
    Type: book
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