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1. Introduction: what sort of past does our future need?
Part I: History and public policy in the era of planetary crisis
2. What stories should historians be telling at the dawn of the Anthropocene?
3. The Anthropocene contract. What kind of historian-reader agreement does environmental historiography need?
4. History and utopian thinking in the era of the Anthropocene
5. Potentials and risks of futurology: lessons from late socialist Poland
6. Globalization as adaptive complexity: learning from failure
7. Disjunctures of practice and the problems of collapse
Part II: Climate change
8. Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from medieval volcanic eruptions for the Anthropocene
9. A perfect tsunami? El Nino, War and Resilience on Aceh, Sumatra
10. Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History
11. Resilience at the Edge: Strategies of Small-Scale Societies for Long-Term Sustainable Living in Dryland Environments
12. Beyond Boom and Bust: Climate in the History of Medieval Steppe Empires (c. 550-1350 CE)
13. Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa
Part III: Crisis and recovery
14. Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery
15. Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece
16. Managing the Roman Empire for the long term: risk assessment and management policy in the fifth to seventh centuries
17. Success and Failure in the Norse North Atlantic: Origins, Pathway Divergence, Extinction and Survival
18.Resilience of coupled socio-ecological systems: historic rice fields of the U.S. south
19. The Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Early Medieval Pandemic
Part IV: Migration and the environment
20. The integration of settlers into existing socio-environmental settings: reclaiming the Greek lands after the Late Medieval crisis
21. Eastward migration in European history: the interplay of economic and environmental opportunities
22. The Environmental Dimension of Migration: the case of Post-WWII Poland
Part V: Conclusions
23. Concluding remarks: interdisciplinarity and public policy.
Part I: History and public policy in the era of planetary crisis
2. What stories should historians be telling at the dawn of the Anthropocene?
3. The Anthropocene contract. What kind of historian-reader agreement does environmental historiography need?
4. History and utopian thinking in the era of the Anthropocene
5. Potentials and risks of futurology: lessons from late socialist Poland
6. Globalization as adaptive complexity: learning from failure
7. Disjunctures of practice and the problems of collapse
Part II: Climate change
8. Geoengineering and the Middle Ages: Lessons from medieval volcanic eruptions for the Anthropocene
9. A perfect tsunami? El Nino, War and Resilience on Aceh, Sumatra
10. Social Responses to Climate Change in a Politically Decentralized Context: A Case Study from East African History
11. Resilience at the Edge: Strategies of Small-Scale Societies for Long-Term Sustainable Living in Dryland Environments
12. Beyond Boom and Bust: Climate in the History of Medieval Steppe Empires (c. 550-1350 CE)
13. Lessons for Modern Environmental and Climate Policy from Iron Age South Central Africa
Part III: Crisis and recovery
14. Systemic Risk and Resilience: The Bronze Age Collapse and Recovery
15. Panarchy and the Adaptive Cycle: A Case Study from Mycenaean Greece
16. Managing the Roman Empire for the long term: risk assessment and management policy in the fifth to seventh centuries
17. Success and Failure in the Norse North Atlantic: Origins, Pathway Divergence, Extinction and Survival
18.Resilience of coupled socio-ecological systems: historic rice fields of the U.S. south
19. The Short- and Long-Term Effects of an Early Medieval Pandemic
Part IV: Migration and the environment
20. The integration of settlers into existing socio-environmental settings: reclaiming the Greek lands after the Late Medieval crisis
21. Eastward migration in European history: the interplay of economic and environmental opportunities
22. The Environmental Dimension of Migration: the case of Post-WWII Poland
Part V: Conclusions
23. Concluding remarks: interdisciplinarity and public policy.