The potential of taxation records as a data source for historical climatology
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F86652079%3A_____%2F25%3A00641325" target="_blank" >RIV/86652079:_____/25:00641325 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14310/25:00142475 RIV/49777513:23330/25:43977567
Result on the web
<a href="https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1961/2025/" target="_blank" >https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/1961/2025/</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-21-1961-2025" target="_blank" >10.5194/cp-21-1961-2025</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The potential of taxation records as a data source for historical climatology
Original language description
The tax liability of peasants significantly influenced their lives and the total monetary income of the country. The damaging effects of weather extremes on crop yields were considered grounds for tax relief. Administrative documentation connected with requests for tax relief can serve as an important source of data for historical climatology, as demonstrated by the example of the Pr & aacute che & ncaron. Region in southwestern Bohemia during the 17th-19th centuries. Based on the first land registry system, only hailstorm damage to crops and fires qualified peasants for tax relief from 1655 CE, while the subsequent land registry system from 1748 CE extended this to include water damage from 1775 CE. Taxation data made it possible to analyse the spatiotemporal variability of significant hailstorms, water torrents, and lightning-caused fires, together with their impacts on agriculture and the lives of peasants during the 1655-1707 and 1748-1827 CE periods in the Pr & aacute che & ncaron. Region, for which summary data at governmental and regional levels were preserved. Data related to weather damage were further supplemented with other documentary sources to create a chronology of significant hailstorms, water torrents, and additional weather extremes for the analyzed region. This study and its results clearly demonstrate the potential of taxation records available in the Czech Lands as well as in many other countries for historical-climatological research into past damaging weather events and their human impacts.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10509 - Meteorology and atmospheric sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EH22_008%2F0004635" target="_blank" >EH22_008/0004635: AdAgriF - Advanced methods of greenhouse gases emission reduction and sequestration in agriculture and forest landscape for climate change mitigation</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Climate of the Past
ISSN
1814-9324
e-ISSN
1814-9332
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
11
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1961-1979
UT code for WoS article
001607540700001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105020877768