We are pleased to invite scholars to join the panel "Climate of Ukraine: yesterday, today, tomorrow" at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) 2025 Climate Histories Conference, taking place in Uppsala, Sweden, in August 2025.
The panel seeks to explore the historical, present, and future dimensions of climate and environmental change in Ukraine, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches that integrate environmental history, climatology, ecology, economy, politics, and social sciences.
Panel Description:
Ukraine is underrepresented in modern climate studies, as well as in climatological studies of the Russian Empire and the Soviet era, even though its scientists conducted wide-scale research on the region's climate and one of the first meteorological stations was created on its territory.
Today, like many countries, Ukraine is experiencing the negative consequences of climate change, including rising temperatures, erratic precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme weather events such as dust storms and droughts. These environmental stressors compound the damage caused by the ongoing Russian war against Ukraine, which has ravaged ecosystems, devastated farmland, and disrupted water systems - further amplifying the country’s climate vulnerabilities. This war highlights a frequently overlooked aspect of the climate crisis: how war exacerbates environmental degradation and hinders both recovery and adaptation efforts.
This panel aims to investigate how climate change has shaped and continues to shape the region's landscapes, biodiversity, agricultural practices, economy, human development, local communities, policy-making, awareness, and adaptation models.
We encourage researchers from a variety of fields - environmental history, climate science, geography, ecology, economics, the history of science and technology, social sciences, policy, and beyond - to contribute papers that address both the theoretical and practical dimensions of the panel’s theme. Interdisciplinary approaches and projects using comparative perspectives, regional case studies, and innovative methodologies to examine the impacts of climate change in Ukraine, as well as strategies for mitigation and adaptation, are especially welcome.
Join us in discussing the past, present, and future of Ukraine’s climate and presenting this vital research to a global academic audience!
Submission Guidelines: Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) to Tetiana Perga, e-mail: pergatatiana@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: September, 25, 2024.
Contact Information
For more information, please contact: Tetiana Perga, TU Berlin
e-mail: pergatatiana@gmail.com
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