Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change
inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today? Climate and
Society in Ireland is a collection of essays, commissioned by the
Royal Irish Academy, that provides a multi-period,
interdisciplinary perspective on one of the most important
challenges currently facing humanity. Combining syntheses of
existing knowledge with new insights and approaches, contributors
explore the varied environmental, climatic and social changes that
occurred in Ireland from early prehistory to the early 21st
century. The essays in the volume engage with a diversity of
pertinent themes, including the impact of climate change on the
earliest human settlement of Ireland; weather-related food
scarcities during medieval times that led to violence and plague
outbreaks; changing representations of weather in poetry written in
Ireland between 1600 and 1820; and how Ireland is now on the
threshold of taking the radical steps necessary to shed its
'climate laggard' status and embark on the road to a post-carbon
society. With contributions by Maire Ni Annrachain, Katharina
Becker, David M. Brown, Lucy Collins, Lisa Coyle McClung, Bruce
M.S. Campbell, Rosie Everett, Benjamin Gearey, Raymond Gillespie,
Seren Griffiths, James Kelly, Francis Ludlow, Meriel McClatchie,
Conor Murphy, Simon Noone, Aaron Potito, Gill Plunkett, Phil
Stastney, Graeme T. Swindles, John Sweeney, Graeme Warren.
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