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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road /

This open access book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient Silk Road regions. Over twenty chapters provide insight into this topic from various disciplinary angles and perspectives, ranging from archaeology, paleoclimato...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Yang, Liang Emlyn (Editor), Bork, Hans-Rudolf (Editor), Fang, Xiuqi (Editor), Mischke, Steffen (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Historical geography.
Archaeology.
Climatology.
Agriculture.
China-History.
Middle East-History.
Historical Geography.
History of China.
History of the Middle East.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword 1
  • Foreword 2
  • Foreword 3
  • Acknowledgement
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Part II. Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system
  • Part III. Natural disasters and impacts on the past societies
  • Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems
  • Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses
  • Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the environment.