| Title | Chapter 7. The Impact of Wildfire and Climate on the Resilience and Vulnerability of Peasant Communities in Seventeenth-Century Finland |
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| Contributor | Jakob Starlander(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.63308/63881023874820.ch07 |
| Landing page | https://www.whpress.co.uk/publications/2025/05/02/nordicclimatehistories/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en |
| Copyright | Jakob Starlander |
| Publisher | The White Horse Press |
| Published on | 2025-08-15 |
| Long abstract | This chapter explores the impact of wildfire and climate on the resilience and vulnerability of peasant communities in Finland. It examines the socio-economic consequences of forest and settlement fires by analysing several different source categories, including local district court protocols, tax records and seventeenth- century legislation. The occurrence of fire disasters is compared with reconstruc- tions of climatic conditions during the century and the chapter estimates the relative impact of climate anomalies on the frequency of fire disasters, as well as establishing different factors of resilience and vulnerability of the Finnish rural population. |
| Page range | pp. 167–185 |
| Print length | 19 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Media | 4 illustrations |
Jakob Starlander has a Ph.D. in Agrarian History from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala, Sweden. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History, Institute of History, Bern University, Switzerland. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Agrarian History, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden.