We’re excited to announce the release of Nordic Climate Histories: Impacts, Pathways, Narratives, an innovative and timely volume that brings together, for the first time, climate histories from across all the Nordic countries.
Edited by Dominik Collet, Ingar Mørkestøl Gundersen, Heli Huhtamaa, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Astrid Ogilvie, and Sam White, the book offers a rich interdisciplinary dialogue between climatology, history, archaeology, museology, and literature. The central question: How did Nordic societies face past climate challenges, and what can we learn from those experiences today?
Topics include the social and cultural consequences of the Little Ice Age, community responses to volcanic events, adaptive architecture, and the role of storytelling, from poetry to museum exhibitions, in shaping climate narratives.
The chapters span a wide historical scope, from the Bronze Age to the present, and draw on diverse sources such as tree rings, historical records, material culture, and oral traditions. The result is a compelling look at how climate and culture have been intertwined, and how these entanglements continue to matter in our current era of climate crisis.
📘 Nordic Climate Histories is Open Access thanks to the support of the Centre for Advanced Study (Oslo) and the NORCLI project at the University of Oslo. The volume emerged from an international conference held in Oslo in May 2024 and features contributions from leading scholars and practitioners engaged in climate communication and research.
To access: https://books.whpress.co.uk/10.63308/63881023874820.book.pdf
