Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Grove, Richard (1955-....)
Adamson, George (19..-.... ; géographe)
Titre(s) : El Niño in world history [Texte électronique] / Richard Grove, George Adamson
Publication : London : Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2018
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : Palgrave studies in world environmental history
Lien à la collection : Palgrave studies in world environmental history (Online)
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
This book examines the role of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.
Throughout human history, large or recurrent El Niños could cause significant disruption
to societies and in some cases even contribute to political change. Yet it is only
now that we are coming to appreciate the significance of the phenomenon. In this volume,
Richard Grove and George Adamson chart the dual history of El Niño: as a global phenomenon
capable of devastating weather extremes and, since the 18th century, as a developing
idea in science and society. The chapters trace El Niño's position in world history
from its role in the revolution in Australian Aboriginal Culture at 5,000 BP to the
2015-16 'Godzilla' event. It ends with a discussion of El Nino in the current media,
which is as much a product of the public imagination as it is a natural process
La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de : XVII-245 p.
Sujet(s) : ENSO (météorologie)
Changements climatiques -- Histoire
El Niño (courant)
Indice(s) Dewey :
551.6 (23e éd.) = Climatologie et temps
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781137457394. - ISBN 1137457392 (print). - ISBN 9781137457400 (eBook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb455898769
Notice n° :
FRBNF45589876
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Machine generated contents note:1.. Introduction / / Richard Grove ; ; pt. I. A Millennial
History of El Nino -- ; 2.. El Nino in Prehistory / / Richard Grove ; ; 3.. El Nino
Chronology and the Little Ice Age / / Richard Grove ; ; 4.. The `Great El Nino',
1790 -- 1794 / / Richard Grove ; ; 5.. The Influence of El Nino on World Crises in
the Nineteenth Century / / Richard Grove ; ; pt. II. The Science of El Nino and the
Southern Oscillation -- ; 6.. The Discovery of ENSO / / George Adamson ; ; 7.. Cataloguing
the El Nino / / George Adamson ; ; pt. III. El Nino and Epidemic Disease -- ; 8..
El Nino Events and the History of Epidemic Disease Incidence / / Richard Grove ;
; pt. IV. El Nino in Contemporary Society -- ; 9.. El Nino in the Twentieth Century
/ / George Adamson ; ; 10.. El Nino in the Public Imagination / / George Adamson
; ; 11.. Postscript: El Nino and Human Future / / George Adamson.
