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The recognition of systematic data's need is a true challenge for the historian that uses historical data as source for climatic changes and landscape evolution analyses. Focusing on the region of Minho river mouth, this work aims to contribute to the identification of the weather phenomena occurred in this area, in the Modern Age, and that defined the established relations between the environment and the human community. For this purpose one will present an analysis of the historical documentation produced by the monks of Convento da Ínsua, a convent settled in an island located in the river mouth of Minho, since the XIV century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses the contents within the issue including articles on topics such as environmental history, meteorology, and environmental policy.