Cel Societies in past and present are regularly confronted with major hazards, which sometimes have disastrous effects. Some societies are successful in preventing these effects and buffering threats, or they recover quickly, while others prove highly vulnerable. Why is this?Increasingly it is clear that disasters are not merely natural events, and also that wealth and technology alone are not adequate to prevent them. Rather, hazards and disasters are social occurrences as well, and they form a tough test for the organizational capacities of a society, both in mitigation and recovery. This project targets a main element of this capacity, namely: the way societies have organized the exchange, allocation and use of resources. It aims to explain why some societies do well in preventing or remedying disasters through these institutional arrangements and others not.In order to do so, this project analyses four key variables: the mix of coordination systems available within that society, its degree of autarky, economic equity and political equality. The recent literature on historical and present-day disasters suggests these factors as possible causes of success or failure of institutional arrangements in their confrontation with hazards, but their discussion remains largely descriptive and they have never been systematically analyzed.This research project offers such a systematic investigation, using rural societies in Western Europe in the period 1300-1800 - with their variety of socio-economic characteristics - as a testing ground. The historical perspective enables us to compare widely differing cases, also over the long run, and to test for the variables chosen, in order to isolate the determining factors in the resilience of different societies. By using the opportunities offered by history in this way, we will increase our insight into the relative performance of societies and gain a better understanding of a critical determinant of human wellbeing. Dziedzina nauki humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistory Program(-y) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) ERC-AG-SH6 - ERC Advanced Grant - The study of the human past Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2013-ADG Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Instytucja przyjmująca UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Wkład UE € 2 227 326,00 Adres HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht Niderlandy Zobacz na mapie Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Balthassar Jozef Paul (Bas) Van Bavel (Prof.) Kontakt administracyjny M.H.L. Deenen (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Beneficjenci (1) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT Niderlandy Wkład UE € 2 227 326,00 Adres HEIDELBERGLAAN 8 3584 CS Utrecht Zobacz na mapie Region West-Nederland Utrecht Utrecht Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kierownik naukowy Balthassar Jozef Paul (Bas) Van Bavel (Prof.) Kontakt administracyjny M.H.L. Deenen (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych