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Hazards and Humans: Recent Publications

Leroy S., Jousse H. and Cremaschi M. (eds), 2006. Dark Nature: Impact of rapid environmental changes on humans and ecosystems. Special issue of Quaternary International. Volume 150. 12 papers.

S.A.G. Leroy, H. Jousse, M. Cremaschi: Impact of rapid environmental changes on humans and ecosystems.

Karen J. Walker, Donna S.: Developing oxygen isotope proxies from archaeological sources for the study of Late Holocene human–climate interactions in coastal southwest Florida.

Clark Spencer Larsen: The agricultural revolution as environmental catastrophe: Implications for health and lifestyle in the Holocene.

R. Sallares: Role of environmental changes in the spread of malaria in Europe during the Holocene.

Vincent Ollive, Christophe Petit, Jean-Pierre Garcia, Michel Reddé: Rhine flood deposits recorded in the Gallo-Roman site of Oedenburg (Haut-Rhin, France).

J.L. Dinis, V. Henriques, M.C. Freitas, C. Andrade, P. Costa: Natural to anthropogenic forcing in the Holocene evolution of three coastal lagoons (Caldas da Rainha valley, western Portugal).

S.A.G. Leroy, F. Marret, S. Giralt, S.A. Bulatov: Natural and anthropogenic rapid changes in the Kara-Bogaz Golover the last two centuries reconstructed from palynological analyses and a comparison to instrumental records.

Fabienne Marret, Jean Maley, James Scourse: Climatic instability in west equatorial Africa during the Mid-and Late Holocene.

Martin Williams, Justin Nottage: Impact of extreme rainfall in the central Sudan during 1999 as a partial analogue for reconstructing early Holocene prehistoric environments.

H. Renssen, V. Brovkin, T. Fichefet, H. Goosse: Simulation of the Holocene climate evolution in Northern Africa: The termination of the African Humid Period.

Philipp Schmidt-Thomé, Stefan Greiving, Hilkka Kallio, Mark Fleischhauer, Jaana Jarva: Economic risk maps of floods and earthquakes for Europeanregions.

Miglė Stančikaitė, Valentinas Baltrūnas, Petras Šinkūnas, Dalia Kisielienė, Tomas Ostrauskas: Human response to the Holocene environmental changes in the Biržulis Lake region, NW Lithuania.

Leroy S., Jousse H. and Cremaschi M. (eds), 2006. Dark Nature: Responses of humans and ecosystems to rapid environmental changes. Specialissue of Quaternary International. Volume 151. 12 papers.

S.A.G. Leroy, H. Jousse, M. Cremaschi: Dark Nature: Responses of humans and ecosystems to rapid environmental changes.

Antony R. Berger. Abrupt geological changes: Causes, effects, and public issues.

John Grattan: Aspects of Armageddon: An exploration of the role of volcanic eruptions in human history and civilization.

Patricia Plunket, Gabriela Uruñuela: Social and cultural consequences of a late Holocene eruption of Popocatépetl in central Mexico.

Nick Brooks: Cultural responses to aridity in the Middle Holocene and increased social complexity.

Savino di Lernia: Building monuments, creating identity: Cattle cult as a social response to rapid environmental changes in the Holocene Sahara.

Hélène Jousse: What is the impact of Holocene climatic changes on human societies? Analysis of West African Neolithic populations dietary customs.

Michael Schmidt, Bernhard Lucke, Rupert Bäumler, Ziad al-Saad, Bakr al-Qudah, Austin Hutcheon: The Decapolis region (Northern Jordan) as historical example of desertification? Evidence from soil development and distribution.

Mauro Cremaschi, Chiara Pizzi, Veruska Valsecchi:m Water management and land use in the terramare and a possible climatic co-factor in their abandonment: The case study of the terramara of Poviglio Santa Rosa (northern Italy).

Eric Post, Mads C. Forchhammer: Spatially synchronous population dynamics: An indicator of Pleistocene faunal response to large-scale environmental change in the Holocene.

W. Bruce Masse, Jolie Liston, James Carucci, J. Stephen Athens: Evaluating the effects of climate change on environment,resource depletion, and culture in the Palau Islands between AD 1200 and 1600.

Roselyn Kumar, Patrick D. Nunn, Julie S. Field, Antoine de Biran: Human responses to climate change around AD 1300: A case study of the Sigatoka Valley, Viti Levu Island, Fiji.

Piovano E., Villalba R. and Leroy, S. (eds), 2006. Holocene environmental catastrophes in South America: from the lowlands to the Andes. Special issue of Quaternary International. Volume 158. 16 papers.

Eduardo L. Piovano, Ricardo Villalba, Suzanne A.G. Leroy: Holocene environmental catastrophes in South America: From the lowlands to the Andes.

Suzanne A.G. Leroy: From natural hazard to environmental catastrophe: Past and present.

Rob Kemp, Nick Branch, Barbara Silva, Frank Meddens, Alan Williams, Anne Kendall, Cirilio Vivanco: Pedosedimentary, cultural and environmental significance of paleosols within pre-hispanic agricultural terraces in the southern Peruvian Andes.

S.C. Fritz, P.A. Baker, P. Tapia, J. Garland: Spatial and temporal variation in cores from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru during the last 13,000 yrs.

Liliana C. Lupo, María Martha Bianchi, Ezequiel Aráoz, Ricardo Grau, Christoph Lucas, Raoul Kern, María Camacho, Willi Tanner, Martin Grosjean: Climate and human impact during the past 2000 years as recorded in the Lagunas de Yala, Jujuy, northwestern Argentina.

Gustavo Villarosa, Valeria Outes, Adan Hajduk, Eduardo Crivelli Montero, Daniel Sellés, Mabel Fernández, Ernesto Crivelli: Explosive volcanism during the Holocene in the Upper Limay RiverBasin: The effects of ashfalls on human societies, Northern Patagonia, Argentina.

Emmanuel Chapron, Daniel Ariztegui, Sandor Mulsow, Gustavo Villarosa, Mario Pino, Valeria Outes, Etienne Juvignié, Ernesto Crivelli: Impact of the 1960 major subduction earthquake in NorthernPatagonia (Chile, Argentina).

Torsten Haberzettl, Michael Wille, Michael Fey, Stephanie Janssen, Andreas Lücke, Christoph Mayr, Christian Ohlendorf, Frank Schäbitz, Gerhard H. Schleser, Bernd.

Zolitschka: Environmental change and fire history of southern Patagonia (Argentina) during the last five centuries.

Sergio A. Sepúlveda, Sofía Rebolledo, Gabriel Vargas: Recent catastrophic debris flows in Chile: Geological hazard,climatic relationships and human response.

Laura P. Perucca, Stella M. Moreiras: Liquefaction phenomena associated with historical earthquakes in San Juan and Mendoza Provinces, Argentina.

Stella M. Moreiras: Frequency of debris flows and rockfall along the Mendoza rivervalley (Central Andes), Argentina: Associated risk and future scenario.

Ernesto F. Viglizzo, Federico C. Frank: Ecological interactions, feedbacks, thresholds and collapses in the Argentine Pampas in response to climate and farming during the last century.

Andrea I. Pasquini, Karina L. Lecomte, Eduardo L. Piovano, Pedro J. Depetris: Recent rainfall and runoff variability in central Argentina.

Graciela L. Argüello, Clarita M. Dasso, Jorge A. Sanabria: Effects of intense rainfalls and their recurrence: Case study in Corralito ravine, Córdoba Province, Argentina.

J. Busnelli, L. del V. Neder, J.M. Sayago: Temporal dynamics of soil erosion and rainfall erosivity asgeoindicators of land degradation in Northwestern Argentina.

Ramon Julià, José Antonio Luque: Climatic changes vs. catastrophic events in lacustrine systems: A geochemical approach.

Leroy S., Michetti A. and Pasquare F. A. (eds), 2007: International Conference on Environmental Catastrophes”. Special issue of Quaternary International 173-174. 16 papers.

S.A.G. Leroy, A.M. Michetti, F.A. Pasquaré: Dark Nature.

George Papathanassiou, Spyros Pavlides: Using the INQUA scale for the assessment of intensity: Case study of the 2003 Lefkada (Ionian Islands), Greece earthquake.

Anna Fokaefs, Gerassimos Papadopoulo: Testing the new INQUA intensity scale in Greek earthquakes.

R.E. Tatevossian: The Verny, 1887, earthquake in Central Asia: Application of theINQUA scale, based on coseismic environmental effects.

Leonello Serva, Eliana Esposito, Luca Guerrieri, Sabina Porfido, Eutizio Vittori, Valerio Comerci : Environmental effects from five historical earthquakes in southern Apennines (Italy) and macroseismic intensity assessment. Contribution to INQUA EEE Scale Project.

Anna Maria Blumetti, Pio DiManna, Luca Ferreli, Domenico Fiorenza, EutizioVittori: Reduction of environmental risk from capable faults: The case of the Eastern Etna region (eastern Sicily, Italy).

Alfonsa Milia, Arturo Raspini, Maurizio M. Torrente: The dark nature of Somma-Vesuvius volcano: Evidence from the similar 3.5 ka B.P. Avellino eruption.

Valerio Comerci, Sabrina Capelletti, Alessandro M. Michetti, Sabina Rossi,Leonello Serva, Eutizio Vittori: Land subsidence and Late Glacial environmental evolution of the Como urban area (Northern Italy).

Glen M. MacDonald: Severe and sustained drought in southern California and the West: Present conditions and insights from the past on causes and impacts.

Fekri A. Hassan: Extreme Nile floods and famines in Medieval Egypt (AD 930–1500) and their climatic implications.

Daniela Fanetti, Luigina Vezzoli: Sediment input and evolution of lacustrine deltas: The Breggiaand Greggio rivers case study (Lake Como, Italy).

René Létolle, Philip Micklin, Nikolay Aladin, Igor Plotnikov: Uzboy and the Aral regressions: A hydrological approach.

S.B. Kroonenberg, G.M. Abdurakhmanov, E.N. Badyukova, K. van der Borg, A. Kalashnikov, N.S. Kasimov, G.I. Rychagov, A.A. Svitoch, H.B. Vonhof, F.P. Wesselingh: Solar-forced 2600 BP and Little Ice Age highstands of the Caspian Sea.

Klaus Arpe, Suzanne A.G. Leroy: The Caspian Sea Level forced by the atmospheric circulation, as observed and modelled.

Angus R. Westgarth-Smith, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Philip E.F. Collins, Richard Harrington: Temporal variations in English populations of a forest insect pest, the green spruce aphid (Elatobium abietinum), associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation and global warming.

Thomas Heyd: Rapid natural changes: A perspective from environmental philosophy.

Federico Pasquarè, Matteo Pozzetti: Geological hazards, disasters and the media: The Italian case study.

Special issue in preparation
Hurricanes and typhoons: From the field records to the forecast
Guest Editors: Suzanne A. G. Leroy and Tina M. Niemi.
Editorial: Suzanne A. G. Leroy and Tina M. Niemi

Arpe K. and Leroy S. A. G. Impacts from SSTs, ENSO, stratospheric QBO and global warming on Hurricanes over the North Atlantic.

Benjamin P. Horton, Veronica Rossi, Andrea D. Hawkes: The sedimentary record of the 2005 hurricane season from the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines.

Michèle L. Clarke, Helen M. Rendell: The impact of North Atlantic storminess on western European coasts: A review.

J.D. Hansom, A.M. Hall: Magnitude and frequency of extra-tropical North Atlantic cyclones: A chronology from cliff-top storm deposits.

T.A. McCloskey, G. Keller: 5000 year sedimentary record of hurricane strikes on the central coast of Belize.

Gerald R. Urquhart: Paleoecological record of hurricane disturbance and forest regeneration in Nicaragua.

Park et al. Event deposition and faunal fluctuations after hurricane events: a multi-proxy sediment core analysis from Salt Pond, San Salvador Island, Bahamas.

Dirk H.R. Spennemann: Hindcasting Typhoons in Micronesia: Experiences from ethnographic and historic records.

Zhao et al. Reconstruction of storm/tsunami records over the last 4000 years using transported coral blocks and lagoon deposits in the southern South China Sea.

Ke-Fu Yu, Jian-Xin Zhao, Qi Shi, Qing-Shan Meng: Reconstruction of storm/tsunami records over the last 4000 years using transported coral blocks and lagoon sediments in the southern South ChinaSea.

Jennifer R. Smith, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Henry P. Schwarcz, Charles S. Churcher, Johanna M. Kieniewicz, Gordon R. Osinski, Albert F.C. Haldemann: Potential consequences of a Mid-Pleistocene impact event for the Middle Stone Age occupants of Dakhleh Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt.