Cluster ROOTSDec 13, 2024
Many studies have looked at times in the past when significant #climaticchanges were accompanied by social upheaval. But there are also examples of human communities remaining stable or even prospering despite climatic environmental risks. What were the factors that led to such social resilience? A thematic focus in #EnvironmentalResearchLetters is now dedicated to the field of “Climate Resiliology”: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/218-climate-resilience
#socialresilience #climatechange #archaeology #geosciences
How human communities have resisted climate changes

Thematic focus in Environmental Research Letters initiated by the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence deals with social resilience over the past 5,000 years.

Uni Kiel
bacigalupeNov 23, 2022

In the light of the empirical evidence for the role of human behaviour in #climaticchanges, it is curious that the ‘human factor’ has not always received much attention in key research areas, such as climate modelling. For a long time, climate models to predict global warming and emissions did not account for it. This oversight meant that predictions made by these models have differed greatly in their projected rise in temperatures8,9.

Human #behaviour is complex and multidimensional, making it difficult — but crucial — to account for it in climate models. In a Review, Brian Beckage and colleagues thus look at existing social climate models and make recommendations for how these models can better embed human behaviour in their forecasting.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01490-9

Climate change and human behaviour - Nature Human Behaviour

Climate change is an immense challenge. Human behaviour is crucial in climate change mitigation, and in tackling the arising consequences. In this joint Focus issue between Nature Climate Change and Nature Human Behaviour, we take a closer look at the role of human behaviour in the climate crisis.

Nature