Today people consider the threat of swarms of locusts as a thing belonging to the past. That is actually not the case: till now, the invasions of locusts are a terrible deal for different areas of the world. Of course, the question has a history behind it. The co-evolution nature-society is somehow a fight in the dark. Living beings more visible than microbes, such as locusts, led effects that should draw the attention of researchers of economic and social history, not excluding the history of mentality. If we assume that migrations of locusts are connected with climatic factors, then a historical reconstruction of their invasions can be useful in advancing research in Mediterranean environmental history. It seems evident the interest in investigating the possible relationship of the phenomenon with the Little Ice Age.
Locust Invasions, Climatic Factors and Human Affairs in Modern Age Mediterranean
GUGLIUZZO, carmelina;RESTIFO, Giuseppe
2016-01-01
Abstract
Today people consider the threat of swarms of locusts as a thing belonging to the past. That is actually not the case: till now, the invasions of locusts are a terrible deal for different areas of the world. Of course, the question has a history behind it. The co-evolution nature-society is somehow a fight in the dark. Living beings more visible than microbes, such as locusts, led effects that should draw the attention of researchers of economic and social history, not excluding the history of mentality. If we assume that migrations of locusts are connected with climatic factors, then a historical reconstruction of their invasions can be useful in advancing research in Mediterranean environmental history. It seems evident the interest in investigating the possible relationship of the phenomenon with the Little Ice Age.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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