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dc.contributor.authorGrau-Satorras, Mar
dc.contributor.authorOtero, Iago
dc.contributor.authorGomez-Baggethun, Erik
dc.contributor.authorReyes-García, Victoria
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-07T14:15:47Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-09T11:47:29Z
dc.date.available2016-06-07T14:15:47Z
dc.date.available2016-06-09T11:47:29Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationEcology & society 2016, 21(2)nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1708-3087
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2392038
dc.description.abstractNew challenges posed by global environmental change have motivated scholars to pay growing attention to historical long-term strategies to deal with climate extremes. We aim to understand long-term trends in community responses to cope with droughts, to explain how many preindustrial societies coevolved with local hydro-climatic dynamics and coped with climate extremes over time. The specific goals of this work are: (1) to analyze how local communities experienced droughts over long periods of time and (2) to document the spectrum of recorded community responses to drought. Our research covers over one century (1605-1710) of responses to drought in the community of Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. Data were collected through archival research. We reviewed and coded 2076 village council minutes. Our results show that the local community adopted a mixture of symbolic, institutional, and infrastructural responses to drought and that drought-related decisions varied through time. We discuss adaptation strategies on the basis of the distinct physical signals of drought propagation and the role of nonclimatic historical factors, such as warfare and public debt, in shaping responses. We conclude that long-term perspectives on premodern history and comparable empirical studies are fundamental to advance our understanding of past social responses to hydro-climatic extremes. adaptation; drought; early modern period; environmental historynb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss2/art33/
dc.subjectadaptationnb_NO
dc.subjectdroughtnb_NO
dc.subjectearly modern periodnb_NO
dc.subjectenvironmental historynb_NO
dc.titleLong-term community responses to droughts in the early modern period: the case study of Terrassa, Spainnb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.typeJournal article
dc.date.updated2016-06-07T14:15:47Z
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2016 by the author(s). Published here under license by the Resilience Alliance.nb_NO
dc.source.volume21nb_NO
dc.source.journalEcology & Societynb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.5751/ES-08232-210233
dc.identifier.cristin1358552


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