Droughts in Historical Times in Europe, as Derived from Documentary Evidence
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Alternative codes found
RIV/86652079:_____/19:00507859
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0_4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0_4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0_4" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0_4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Droughts in Historical Times in Europe, as Derived from Documentary Evidence
Original language description
Documentary evidence can provide high-resolution data pertaining to past droughts. This may include a wide range of sources, among them: narratives (annals, chronicles, memoirs); diaries kept by persons specifically interested in the weather; accountancy and economic-administrative archives; legal-administrative records; religious observances; letters; songs; newspapers and magazines; paintings and pictographic evidence; chronograms; epigraphic evidence; early instrumental meteorological observations; society and professional reports; and weather compilations. Most of these are generally available for many European countries. Such a variety of documentary information is sufficient to distinguish between the basic types of drought (meteorological, agricultural, hydrological and socio-economic) and reconstruct hydroclimatic conditions in the form of series of precipitation totals, drought frequencies and drought indices. This paper presents a European overview of existing documentary-based drought studies for the Mediterranean, western, central and eastern areas of Europe. Examples of outstanding European droughts are drawn from events of 1361, 1616 and 1718–1719 CE. The descriptions of European droughts and of human responses to them, pay particular attention to impacts on society, to perceptions of drought and to spiritual and ritual responses, as well as to the institutional/legal-administrative decisions and changes droughts have brought about. Perspectives for future research into historical droughts in Europe are also presented.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-10026S" target="_blank" >GA17-10026S: Drought events in the Czech Republic and their causes</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Palaeohydrology
ISBN
9783030233143
Number of pages of the result
32
Pages from-to
65-96
Number of pages of the book
230
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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