Data from: Navigating Polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate

These data are part of a data portal that accompanies the special issue
‘Climate change adaptation needs a science of culture,’ published in
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B in 2023. To access the
data portal, please visit 10.5061/dryad.bnzs7h4h4. We have systematically
collected information about the nature and consequences of societal crisis
in over 150 cases covering different regions in the world in the
preindustrial period. In this contribution, we discuss some critical
insights arising from initial analysis of this material, which has
informed the basis of our work.