El Niño in World History

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Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

ISBN: 1137457392
ISBN 13: 9781137457394
Autor: Grove, Richard/Adamson, George
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 245 S., 9 s/w Illustr., 7 farbige Illustr., 245 p. 16 illus., 7 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.01.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society. Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only now that we are coming to appreciate the significance of the phenomenon. In this volume, Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Niño: as a global phenomenon capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing idea in science and society. The chapters trace El Niño’s position in world history from its role in the revolution in Australian Aboriginal Culture at 5,000 BP to the 2015-16 ‚Godzilla‘ event. It ends with a discussion of El Niño in the current media, which is as much a product of the public imagination as it is a natural process.

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Autorenporträt

Richard Grove is a pioneering global environmental historian whose numerous books include Green Imperialism; Ecology, Climate and Empire; and El Niño- history and crisis. He was Professorial Fellow at Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex and ARC Professorial Fellow at Australian National University. This book represents some of his most recent, exciting and unpublished work on the life and times of El Niño. George Adamson is a historical climatologist with a focus on El Niño and the Indian monsoon. He is Lecturer in Geography at Kings College London, UK.

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