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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Sundberg, Adam (1984-....)
Titre(s) : Natural disaster at the closing of the Dutch golden age [Texte imprimé] : floods, worms, and cattle plague / Adam Sundberg,....
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-337 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies in environment and history
Lien à la collection : Studies in environment and history
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 277-323. Index
"The world is growing more hazardous. Natural disasters are increasing in frequency
and severity, spurred in part by changes associated with a warming planet. In their
2020 joint report, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Centre
for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters found that the number of natural disasters
rose precipitously since the 1980s, with each year bringing new human and economic
losses. Disasters affected 94.9 million people in 2019 alone and 2020 brought a steady
stream of record-breaking calamities, including super typhoons in Southeast Asia,
historic wildfires in Australia and across the American West, locust swarms in East
Africa and the Middle East, and a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season. COVID-19
emerged as a global public health emergency, which compounded the consequences of
these and many other disasters. The deadly consequences of the pandemic continue as
of this writing. The burdens of catastrophes were and are endured unevenly around
the world often mirroring its inequalities, yet no region completely escaped their
impacts. In the United States, the risk of hurricanes, wildfires, river floods, and
droughts have intensified in recent decades and the most recent US Climate Assessment
warns of greater hazards in the future. A dawning sense of urgency in the face of
dramatic and accelerating socio-economic and environmental change has produced a global
clarion call for improved understanding of the roots, consequences, and response to
disasters"
Sujet(s) : Catastrophes naturelles -- Pays-Bas -- 18e siècle
Peste bovine -- Pays-Bas -- 18e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
904.509 49209033 (23e éd.) = Événements d'origine naturelle - Pays-Bas - 1700-1799
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108831246. - ISBN 1108831249 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108926591. - ISBN 1108926592.
- ISBN 9781108923750 (erroné). - ISBN 9781108924634 (erroné) (PDF ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47328181d
Notice n° :
FRBNF47328181
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Rampjaar reconsidered ; "Disasters in the year of peace" : the first cattle plague,
1713-1720 ; "The fattened land turned to salted ground" : the Christmas flood of
1717 in Groningen ; A plague from the sea : the shipworm epidemic, 1730-1735 ; "Increasingly
numerous and higher floods" : the river floods of 1740-1741 ; "From a love of humanity
and comfort for the Fatherland" : the second cattle plague, 1744-1764 ; The twin
faces of calamity : lessons of decline and disaster.
