Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest poi

An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.

This book propagates a new way of thinking about managing our resources by integrating the perspectives of complex systems theory and social psychology. By reso

A thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made cl