caa a22 4500 46791799X CHVBK 20180406152908.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-3492-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-3492-7 Decades of Drought, Years of Hunger: Archival Investigations of Multiple Year Droughts in Late Colonial Chihuahua [Elektronische Daten] [Georgina Endfield, Isabel Tejedo] Unusually severe or prolonged drought ranks among the most devastating and calamitous of all extreme climate events, contributing to wildfires, crop failure, livestock death, food shortages and famine. The response of human activities and the natural environment to such historical weather perturbations provides a guide to where the most critical sensitivities to future climate changes may lie (McCarthy et al., 2001, ‘Climatic change 2001: Impact adaptation, and vulnerability', from 3rd Assesment Report of IPCC). The reconstruction of regional climatic histories and investigations of the impacts of - and social response to - extreme droughts in history are thus of crucial significance if we are to understand and anticipate the potential repercussions of future events (Wigley, 1985, Nature 316, 106-107; Grove and Conterio, 1995, Clim. Change 30, 223). Chihuahua, in the arid Northwest of Mexico, is one of the most seriously and frequently drought affected regions of the country (Garcia, 2000, available at www.sequia.edu.mx/proyectos/vulnera.html). Prolonged drought in the 1930s, 1950s and 1990s contributed to water scarcity, harvest failure, illness, livestock disease, abandonment and water conflict and served to highlight the particular vulnerability of agrarian society in this region to climatic variability (Sandoval, 2003, Ingeneria Hidraulica en Mexico 18(2), 133-155). Recent investigations using tree ring analysis have identified several phases of such prolonged drought over the last seven centuries. In this paper we use archival documents to investigate the impacts of such periods in late colonial Chihuahua and to explore how society in the region responded to and coped with them. Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2006 Endfield Georgina School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, U.K. aut Tejedo Isabel School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, U.K. aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/4(2006-04-01), 391-419 0165-0009 75:4<391 2006 75 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-3492-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-3492-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Endfield Georgina School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tejedo Isabel School of Geography, University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, U.K aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/4(2006-04-01), 391-419 0165-0009 75:4<391 2006 75 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer