Rohr, Christian (9 October 2021). General Climatic Conditions and Adaptive Strategies for the Alpine Economies (8th-19th centuries) (Unpublished). In: Oeconomia Alpium III. Towards an Economic History of the Alps. Trento. 07.-09.10.2021.
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The paper presents a provisional outline of the chapter for the handbook “Economic History of the Alps in Pre-Modern Times”. Contrary to the contributions to the conferences Oeconomia Alpium I and II, it focuses less on case studies than on the overall structure of the chapter. Topics of the handbook chapter will be:
a) General climatic conditions for Alpine economy
• General short time and seasonal weather situation and long-term climatic developments in the Alpine regions (temperature, precipitation, phenology, e.g. snow and ice cover, plant cycles)
• Hydrological regimes of Alpine rivers and lakes
• Natural hazards in the Alps
b) Economic adaptation strategies
• Location of settlement places
• Water use (irrigation, hydropower, etc.)
• Seasonality of Alpine economic life (transhumance, travel and transport, etc.)
• Building techniques
• Risk management (floods, avalanches, landslides, droughts)
• Sustainable and non-sustainable resource management (grain storage, deforestation, etc.)
One of the main issues is to determine during the discussion, which content will be included in this chapter or in one of the adjacent topics (such as land-use changes, deforestation, food production and food security, transport, etc.).
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History 10 Strategic Research Centers > Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) 06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of History and Archaeology > Institute of History > Economic, Social and Environmental History |
UniBE Contributor: |
Rohr, Christian |
Subjects: |
900 History 900 History > 940 History of Europe |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Christian Rohr |
Date Deposited: |
12 Oct 2021 08:58 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:53 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
climate history, Alps, resources, adaptive strategies, Tambora eruption, avalanches, |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/159946 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/159946 |
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