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1 online resource (xxvi, 525 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour) |
| Contents |
Part I. -- Introduction. On the Paleo-climatic/environmental impacts and socio-cultural system resilience along the historical Silk Road / Liang Emlyn Yang, Hans-Rudolf Bork, Xiuqi Fang, Steffen Mischke, Mara Weinelt and Josef Wiesehöfer -- Part II. Landscape evolutions in the Human-Environment system. -- Evolution of saline lakes in the Guanzhong Basin during the past 2000 years: inferred from historical records / Jie Fei, Hongming He, Liang Emlyn Yang, Xiaoqiang Li, Shuai Yang and Jie Zhou ; Landscape response to climate and human impact in Western China during the Han Dynasty / Steffen Mischke, Chengjun Zhang, Chenglin Liu, Jiafu Zhang, Zhongping Lai and Hao Long ; The Ili River Delta: Holocene hydrogeological evolution and human colonization / Jean-Marc Deom, Renato Sala and Anne Laudisoit ; Quantitative evaluation of the impact on Aral Sea levels by anthropogenic water withdrawal ans Syr Darya course diversion during the Medieval Period (1.0 -- 0.8 ka BP / Renato Sala ; Reconsidering archaeological and environmental proxies for long term human-environment interactions in the Valley of Kashmir / Michael Spate -- Part III. Natural disasters and impacts in the past societies. -- Living with earthquakes along the Silk Road / Miklós Kázmér ; Natural disasters in the history of the Eastern Turk Empire / Rustam Talgatovich Ganiev and Vladimir Vladimirovich Kukarskih ; Dry and humid periods reconstructed from tree rings in the former territory of Sogdiana (Central Asia) and their socio-economic consequences over the last millennium / Magdalena Opala-Owczarek and Piotr Owczarek ; A drought reconstruction from the low-elevation Juniper forest of Northwestern Kyrgyzstan since CE 1565 / Feng Chen, Shulong Yu, Qing He, Bakytbek Ermenbaev and Rysbek Satylkanov -- Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems. -- Social impacts of climate change in historical Chinaeval Period (1.0 -- 0.8 ka BP / Xiuqi Fang, Yun Su, Zhudeng Wei and Jun Yin ; Climate change and the rise of the Central Asian Silk Roads / Daniel J. Hill ; The coming of the barbarians: can climate explain the Saljūqa' advance? / Yehoshua Frenkel ; Climate change and the rise and fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia / Élise Luneau ; Climatic and environmental limiting factors in the Mongol Empire's westward expansion: exploring causes for the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 / Stephen Pow -- Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses. -- Resilience of the human-water system at the Southern Silk Road: a case study of the northern catchment of Erhai Lake, China (1382-1912) / Anning Xu, Liang Emlyn Yang, Weibing Yang and Aubrey L. Hillman ; The age and origin of Karez Systems of Silk Road oases around Turpan, Xinjiang, P.R. of Chinâ̂ social systems. -- Social impacts of climate change in historical Chinaeval Period (1.0 -- 0.8 ka BP / Bertil Mächtle, Stefan Hecht, Nicola Manke, Bernd Kromer, Susanne Lindauer, Cheng-Sen Li, Ying Li, Xiaofei Wang and Olaf Bubenzer ; Water supply and ancient society in the Lake Balkhash Basin: runoff variability along the historical Silk Road / Irina P. Panyushkina, Mark G. Macklin, Willem H. J. Toonen and David M. Meko ; Demographic changes, trade routes, and the formation of anthropogenic landscapes in the middle Volga Region in the past 2500 years / Leonid A. Vyazov, Ekaterina G. Ershova, Elena V. Ponomarenko, Konrad Gajewski, Mikhail S. Blinnikov and Ayrat G. Sitdikov -- Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the environment. -- Routes beyond Gandhara: Buddhist rock carvings in the context of early Silk Roads / Marike van Aerde ; Steppe and sown: Eurasianism, soil and the mapping of Bukhara in the light of Soviet ethnographic accounts / Susanne Marten-Finnis ;ems. -- Social impacts of climate change in historical Chinaeval Period (1.0 -- 0.8 ka BP -- A Karez System's dilemma: a cultural heritage on a shelf or still a viable technique for water resiliency in arid regions / Shalamu Abudu, Zhuping Sheng, James Phillip King and So-Ra Ahn |
| Notes |
Freely available as open access |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Environmental sciences -- Social aspects.
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Landscape ecology -- Silk Road
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Social ecology -- Silk Road
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Environmental sciences -- Social aspects
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Landscape ecology
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Social ecology
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Asia -- Silk Road
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bork, H.-R., editor.
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Fang, Xiuqi, editor
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Mischke, Steffen, editor
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Yang, Liang Emlyn, editor
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| ISBN |
3030007278 |
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3030007286 |
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9783030007270 |
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9783030007287 |
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