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1 online resource (377 p.) |
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Natural Environment of China -- 1.1.1 The Three Topographic Steps -- 1.1.2 The Typical Monsoon Climate -- 1.1.3 Three Partitions: The Basis of Geographical Differences in China -- 1.1.4 The "North" and the "South" in the Eastern Monsoon Region -- 1.2 The Brief History of Socio-economic Development in China -- 1.2.1 Continuously Expanding Farming Areas -- 1.2.2 Large Population Size and Merging of Diverse Peoples -- 1.2.3 The Economic Tradition: Emphasizing Agriculture and Restraining Commerce |
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1.2.4 Spiralling Change of Dynasties -- 1.2.5 Chinese Traditional Thought of Man-Land Relationship and Behaviour -- 1.3 A Literature Review on the Impacts of Historical Climate Change in China -- 1.3.1 Impacts on Agricultural Production -- 1.3.2 Impacts on Economy and Livelihood -- 1.3.3 Impacts in Terms of Unrest and War -- 1.3.4 Combined Impact on the Social Vicissitudes -- 1.3.5 Human Response and Adaptation to Climate Change -- 1.3.6 Summary: Knowledge about Mechanism How Climatic Impacts on Society Needs to Be Improved -- 2 Climate Changes over the Past 2000 Years in China |
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2.1 Temperature Changes over the Past 2000 Years -- 2.1.1 General Characteristics of Temperature Change in China and Comparison with the Northern Hemisphere -- 2.1.2 Regional Differences and Uncertainties -- 2.2 Dry/Wet Changes over the Past 2000 Years -- 2.2.1 Dry/wet Changes in the Eastern Monsoon Region -- 2.2.2 Dry/Wet Changes in Western China -- 3 The Conceptual Model and Indicators of the Impacts of Historical Climate Changes in China -- 3.1 Mechanism for Climate Change Impacts -- 3.1.1 Climate Change Impacts -- 3.1.2 The Resilience, Vulnerability and Adaptation of Socio-ecological System |
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3.1.3 Patterns in Social Response to the Impacts of Climate Change Related to Socio-ecological Resilience -- 3.2 A Conceptual Model of Historical Climate Change Impacts in China Under the Framework of Food Security -- 3.2.1 Global Environmental Change and Food Security -- 3.2.2 Food Security under the Impacts of Climate Change in the History of China -- 3.2.3 Historical Climate Change Impact-Response Processes Dominated by Food Security in China -- 3.2.4 Hierarchy and Interregional Linkages of Historical Climate Change Impact-Response |
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3.2.5 The Complexity of Historical Climate Change Impact-Response -- 3.3 The Proxy Indices of the Social Impacts of Historical Climate Change and the Methodology for Reconstruction -- 3.3.1 Proxy Indices of Social Impacts of Historical Climate Change -- 3.3.2 The Methodology for Gradation of Historical Socioeconomic Indicators Based on Semantic Differential -- 3.3.3 The Methodology for Reconstructing Frequency Series of Historical Socio-economic Indicators -- 4 Relationships between Climate Change and Grain Harvest Fluctuations in China over the Past Two Millennia |
| Summary |
This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food security. The 10 years resolution sequences indexing the status of social and economic subsystems in China over the past 2000 years are reconstructed. Statistical methods are used to reveal the major characters and main process of the impact of historical climate change on China's social economy. This book serves as a reference both for researchers, graduates, and undergraduates majoring in geography, climatology, history, and other related fields |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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4.1 Reconstruction of Grain Yield Grades Sequence |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 9, 2024) |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- China
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Su, Yun
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Zheng, Jingyun
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Xiao, Lingbo
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Wei, Zhudeng
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Yin, Jun
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| ISBN |
9789819702022 |
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981970202X |
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