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Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change

Contributions from an International Workshop within the framework of International Hydrological Program (IHP) UNESCO, held at Ben-Gurion University, Sede Boker, Israel from 7–12 July 1996

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Editors:
  1. Arie S. Issar

    1. The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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  2. Neville Brown

    1. The Oxford Center for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

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Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 31)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Application of a Global Volcanicity Time-Series on High-Resolution Paleoclimatic Modeling of the Eastern Mediterranean

    • Robert U. Bryson, Reid A. Bryson
    Pages 1-19

  3. Abrupt Climate Change around 2,650 BP in North-West Europe: Evidence for Climatic Teleconnections and a Tentative Explanation

    • Bas van Geel, Hans Renssen
    Pages 21-41

  4. Medieval Climatic Anomaly in the Americas

    • Scott Stine
    Pages 43-67

  5. Approaching the Medieval Optimum, 212 to 1000 AD

    • Neville Brown
    Pages 69-95

  6. Paleohydrology of the Northern Negev: Comparative Evaluation of Two Catchments

    • Amos Frumkin, Noam Greenbaum, A. P. Schick
    Pages 97-111

  7. Climate Change and History during the Holocene in the Eastern Mediterranean Region

    • Arie S. Issar
    Pages 113-128

  8. Population Growth and Decline in the Northern Part of Eretz-Israel during the Historical Period as Related to Climatic Changes

    • Michael Netser
    Pages 129-145

  9. Settlement, Agriculture and Paleoclimate in ʿUvda Valley, Southern Negev Desert, 6th–3rd Millennia BC

    • Uzi Avner
    Pages 147-202

  10. Middle to Late Holocene (6,500 Yr. Period) Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotopic Composition of Speleothems from Soreq Cave, Israel

    • Mira Bar-Matthews, Avner Ayalon, Aharon Kaufman
    Pages 203-214

  11. Early to Mid-Holocene Environmental Changes and Their Impact on Human Communities in Southeastern Anatolia

    • Arlene Miller Rosen
    Pages 215-240

  12. Some Considerations on Climatic Changes, Water Resources and Water Needs in the Italian Region South of 43°N

    • Walter Dragoni
    Pages 241-271

  13. Frequency of Extreme Hydroclimatically-Induced Events as a Key to Understanding Environmental Changes in the Holocene

    • Leszek Starkel
    Pages 273-288

  14. The Impact of Climate Changes on Groundwater Regimes and Resources in Russia

    • Vladimir S. Kovalevsky
    Pages 289-293

  15. Pollen Records of Past Climate Changes in West Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum

    • Anne-Marie Lézine
    Pages 295-317

  16. Sahara Environmental Changes during the Quaternary and their Possible Effect on Carbon Storage

    • Hugues Faure, Lilian Faure Denard
    Pages 319-322

  17. Climatic Change during the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition in Upland Western Maharashtra, Western India

    • Sheila Mishra, S. N. Rajaguru, Sonalinaik Savita Ghate, Anupama Kshirsagar
    Pages 323-333

  18. Aspects of Climate Variability and the UNESCO International Hydrological Programme

    • Mike Bonell
    Pages 335-355

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 357-358
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About this book

Since the greenhouse effect emerged as a predictable threat, necessitating the evalu­ ation of its future impact on the environment in the various parts of the globe, interest in the climate changes during the Holocene has gained momentum. The background can be summarized by the sentence: The past is a key to the future. As a matter of fact, this sentence is in the opposite direction, on the dimension of time, to the principle adopted by the founders of the science of geology. They proposed that geological processes in the present should be used as a key for understanding the past. Another reason for the interest in the history of the climate of the Holocene can be described as the renaissance of a modified deterministic approach to the inter­ relation between physical and human geography. This relates in the first place to the fact that various investigations, especially as carried out by Hubert Lamb, showed that the sequence of climate changes previously suggested by Blytt and Sernander for Europe and adopted by most Holocene climatologists was far too general, and that there were more climate changes during recent history than previously taken account of. In the second place it was found out that these changes had had an impact on the history of human communities. Thus, one can conclude that once the taboo on geographical determinism (i. e.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

    Arie S. Issar

  • The Oxford Center for the Environment, Ethics and Society, Mansfield College, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Neville Brown

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change

  • Book Subtitle: Contributions from an International Workshop within the framework of International Hydrological Program (IHP) UNESCO, held at Ben-Gurion University, Sede Boker, Israel from 7–12 July 1996

  • Editors: Arie S. Issar, Neville Brown

  • Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3659-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-5282-2Published: 31 October 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5114-1Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3659-6Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0921-092X

  • Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 358

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Hydrogeology

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