IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 629: Fish and Fisheries: Engaging Crises in Natural and Human Contexts
Tuesday 2 July 2024, 11:15-12:45
| Organisers: | Maria Rosário Bastos, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto João Viegas, Southlands College, University of Roehampton |
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| Moderator/Chairs: | Maria Rosário Bastos, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar 'Cultura, Espaço e Memória' (CITCEM), Universidade do Porto João Viegas, Southlands College, University of Roehampton |
| Paper 629-a | Climate Change and Fisheries in Medieval to Early Modern Britain (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life and Maritime and Naval Studies |
| Paper 629-b | Coastal Changes and Exploitation of Marine Resources on the Portuguese Coastline in Medieval and Early Modern Times: Highlights and Spotlights (Language: English) Index terms: Geography and Settlement Studies and Science |
| Paper 629-c | Medieval Crises: Lost Opportunities in Portuguese Coastal Fishing (Language: English) Index terms: Maritime and Naval Studies and Science |
| Abstract | This panel is devoted to evidence from medieval fisheries for natural and anthropic climate change.Changes in fish distribution and food habits in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern period provide us with a valuable window into climate shifts and responses to them. Panelists will discuss how the passage from the Medieval Warm Period to the Litle Ice Age created crises at different levels of severity and in different latitudes, drawing a particular contrast between England and Portugal. Changes in coastal morphodynamics, the incidence of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), successionof recurrence of extreme weather events, food availability and fashions in fish consumption, and social-economic responses, are some of the topics that we want to bring to the discussion, in an interdisciplinary approach.
Keywords: Climate change; interdisciplinarity; England and Portugal; fisheries; food availability. |