Global climate change and climate collapse have become a topic of much attention in the media and in society. The collapse of ancient civilizations is associated with sudden climate changes.

Based on the latest research results, the book provides answers to the role of climate change in the collapse of ancient civilizations at different times and on different continents - from Mesopotamia to Greenland. The book provides an overview of archaeological and paleoclimatic findings, taking into account the economic, political, and religious-cultural conditions of the time.

The geographer Gerhard Gerold presents with this book a detailed analysis of the complex network of cultural-historical and environmental-ecological conditions, which already existed in historical times and which have a great topicality for our today's globalized world. The book offers numerous examples for the comparison of past and present environmental crises.

The author:

Gerhard Gerold, as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, is one of the scientists who have been working on issues of environmental degradation in the tropics since the 1980s. The collapse of early advanced civilizations in conjunction with regional climate changes fascinated him as part of his extensive geoecological research.