Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice Age
The threat of nuclear winter from a regional nuclear war is an existential hazard that must be actively addressed by policy makers to ensure the shared future of humanity. Here a cross-cultural analysis of 20 societies that experienced the Late Antique Little Ice Age (ca. 536–556CE) is performed in...
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doaj-81d8e2c083684f3982be202eee2cdb702021-08-09T18:41:18ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Security: Health, Science and Policy2377-94972021-01-0161576710.1080/23779497.2021.19638081963808Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice AgePeter Neal Peregrine0Lawrence UniversityThe threat of nuclear winter from a regional nuclear war is an existential hazard that must be actively addressed by policy makers to ensure the shared future of humanity. Here a cross-cultural analysis of 20 societies that experienced the Late Antique Little Ice Age (ca. 536–556CE) is performed in the hope of providing security policy makers with an empirical example of social resilience mechanisms. The climatic conditions of the Late Antique Little Ice Age are strikingly similar to those modelled as resulting from a regional nuclear war employing low-yield nuclear weapons, and thus provides a context in which mechanisms of resilience to nuclear winter might be empirically identified. It is argued that broad political participation fostering bridging ties between communities, agencies, and organisations was a key element of social resilience to the Late Antique Little Ice Age, and may indicate a means to foster resilience to nuclear winter today.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23779497.2021.1963808nuclear wintersocial resiliencesecurity policyrisk managementcross-cultural researchlate antique little ice age |
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Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice Age |
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Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice Age |
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Social resilience to nuclear winter: lessons from the Late Antique Little Ice Age |
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Global Security: Health, Science and Policy |
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The threat of nuclear winter from a regional nuclear war is an existential hazard that must be actively addressed by policy makers to ensure the shared future of humanity. Here a cross-cultural analysis of 20 societies that experienced the Late Antique Little Ice Age (ca. 536–556CE) is performed in the hope of providing security policy makers with an empirical example of social resilience mechanisms. The climatic conditions of the Late Antique Little Ice Age are strikingly similar to those modelled as resulting from a regional nuclear war employing low-yield nuclear weapons, and thus provides a context in which mechanisms of resilience to nuclear winter might be empirically identified. It is argued that broad political participation fostering bridging ties between communities, agencies, and organisations was a key element of social resilience to the Late Antique Little Ice Age, and may indicate a means to foster resilience to nuclear winter today. |
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nuclear winter social resilience security policy risk management cross-cultural research late antique little ice age |
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