A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe (2013)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., & Petley, D. (2013). A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe. Natural Hazards, 69(1), 1051-1079. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-013-0750-7

Modern society is said to have restructured in reaction to contemporary hazards with the aim of improving its management of risk. This implies that pre-industrial societies were somehow fundamentally different. In this paper, we challenge that hypoth... Read More about A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe.