Overview
- Describes the history of China with 2000 years long social and economic sequences
- Presents quantitative research on impacts of historical climate change
- Offers an interdisciplinary illustration on how climate change had impacted the history of China
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Xiuqi Fang is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. He has published more than 300 articles in the fields of past climate change, climate change and civilization, and land use/cover changes.
Yun Su is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. She has published more than 50 articles in the fields of past climate change and its impacts. Her research interests also include natural disaster history.
Jingyun Zheng is Research Professor in climatology, working in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 papers on the Chinese and international journals. Particularly, he developed the temperature series and precipitation index dataset over eastern China for the past 2000 years based on Chinese historical documents, which has been widely used for studying climatechange and the impacts in historical times.
Lingbo Xiao is Associate Professor of historical geography, working in the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. His main research interests are historical climate change and its social impacts, disaster history, and environmental history.
Zhudeng Wei is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in the School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science &Technology. He is interested in the study of past climate change, climatic impact and adaptation, and ecological meteorology.
Jun Yin is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in Lhasa Tibetan Plateau Scientific Research Center. He has worked in the field of past climate change, climate change, and social vicissitudes in China over the past two millennia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Social Impacts of Climate Change in China over the Past 2000 Years
Authors: Xiuqi Fang, Yun Su, Jingyun Zheng, Lingbo Xiao, Zhudeng Wei, Jun Yin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-0202-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Science Press 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-97-0201-5Published: 26 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-97-0204-6Due: 26 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-97-0202-2Published: 25 March 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 361
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Human Geography, Physical Geography