Katrin Kleemann
Dr. Katrin Kleemann is an environmental historian working on volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and maritime history. In August 2021, she joined the German Maritime Museum | Leibniz Institute for Maritime History in Bremerhaven, Germany, as a postdoctoral researcher. Her current research project investigates the history of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche Seewarte) in Hamburg in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg, a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich, and a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
In July 2020, she obtained her doctorate from LMU Munich with a major in history and a minor in geology. She was a member of the international and interdisciplinary doctoral program "Environment and Society" at the Rachel Carson Center. Her doctoral project investigated the impacts of the Icelandic Laki eruption of 1783 on the northern hemisphere. During her time at the Carson Center, she was a research associate for the Environment & Society Portal and the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Arcadia.
Katrin studied history and cultural anthropology at the University of Kiel and the Free University Berlin, earning her MA in early modern history in 2014. During her studies she has worked as a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History at the University of Freiburg, a visiting scholar at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at LMU Munich, and a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
In July 2020, she obtained her doctorate from LMU Munich with a major in history and a minor in geology. She was a member of the international and interdisciplinary doctoral program "Environment and Society" at the Rachel Carson Center. Her doctoral project investigated the impacts of the Icelandic Laki eruption of 1783 on the northern hemisphere. During her time at the Carson Center, she was a research associate for the Environment & Society Portal and the managing editor of the peer-reviewed journal Arcadia.
Katrin studied history and cultural anthropology at the University of Kiel and the Free University Berlin, earning her MA in early modern history in 2014. During her studies she has worked as a Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin.
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OPEN-ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.30909/vol.08.01.5165
How to cite. Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Ludlow, F., Sigl, M., Huhtamaa, H., Garnier, E., Helama, S., Guillet, S., Crampsie, A., Kleemann, K., Camenisch, C., McConnell, J., and Gao, C.: Climatic, weather and socio-economic conditions corresponding with the mid-17th century eruption cluster, Clim. Past Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2021-148, in review, 2021.
Abstract: A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming, natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational collapses among human societies. This scholarship, which we term the ‘history of climate and society’ (HCS), is pursued by researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including archaeologists, economists, geneticists, geographers, historians, linguists and palaeoclimatologists. We argue that, despite the wide interest in HCS, the field suffers from numerous biases, and often does not account for the local effects and spatiotemporal heterogeneity of past climate changes or the challenges of interpreting historical sources. Here we propose an interdisciplinary framework for uncovering climate–society interactions that emphasizes the mechanics by which climate change has influenced human history, and the uncertainties inherent in discerning that influence across different spatiotemporal scales. Although we acknowledge that climate change has sometimes had destructive effects on past societies, the application of our framework to numerous case studies uncovers five pathways by which populations survived—and often thrived—in the face of climatic pressures. This Review proposes an interdisciplinary framework for researching climate–society interactions that focuses on the mechanisms through which climate change has influenced societies, and the uncertainties of discerning this influence across different spatiotemporal scales.