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By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.

• Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico's rich colonial archives
• Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change
• Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural,...

By considering three case study regions in Mexico during the Colonial era, Climate and Society in Colonial Mexico: A Study in Vulnerability examines the complex interrelationship between climate and society and its contemporary implications.

• Provides unique insights on climate and society by capitalizing on Mexico's rich colonial archives
• Offers a unique approach by combining geographical and historic perspectives in order to comprehend contemporary concerns over climate change
• Considers three case study regions in Mexico with very different cultural,...

There is growing concern over the impacts of climate variability and anomalous and unusual weather. While social and economic systems have generally evolved to accommodate some deviations from 'normal' weather conditions, this is rarely true of extremes. For this reason such events can have the greatest and most immediate social and economic impact of all climate changes.

This book is the first to explore the cultural contingency of such weather events, and the ways in which they are recalled, recorded or forgotten. It illustrates how geographical context, particular physical...