Climate Change in Human History: Prehistory to the Present, Benjamin Lieberman, Elizabeth Gordon

Автор: Brooke
Название: Climate Change and the Course of Global History
ISBN: 0521692180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521692182
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Climate Change and the Course of Global History presents the first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity. Part I argues that geological, environmental, and climatic history explain the pattern and pace of biological and human evolution. Part II explores the environmental circumstances of the rise of agriculture and the state in the Early and Mid-Holocene, and presents an analysis of human health from the Paleolithic through the rise of the state. Part III introduces the problem of economic growth and examines the human condition in the Late Holocene from the Bronze Age through the Black Death. Part IV explores the move to modernity, stressing the emerging role of human economic and energy systems as earth-system agents in the Anthropocene. Supported by climatic, demographic, and economic data, this provides a pathbreaking model for historians of the environment, the world, and science.

Автор: Robbins Schug Gwen
Название: Bioarchaeology and Climate Change: A View from South Asian Prehistory
ISBN: 0813054125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813054124
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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"Using subadult skeletons from the Deccan Chalcolithic period of Indian prehistory, along with archaeological and paleoclimate data, this volume makes an important contribution to understanding the effects of ecological change on demography and childhood growth during the second millennium B.C. in peninsular India."--Michael Pietrusewsky, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

In the context of current debates about global warming, archaeology contributes important insights for understanding environmental changes in prehistory, and the consequences and responses of past populations to them.

In Indian archaeology, climate change and monsoon variability are often invoked to explain major demographic transitions, cultural changes, and migrations of prehistoric populations. During the late Holocene (1400-700 B.C.), agricultural communities flourished in a semiarid region of the Indian subcontinent, until they precipitously collapsed. Gwen Robbins Schug integrates the most recent paleoclimate reconstructions with an innovative analysis of skeletal remains from one of the last abandoned villages to provide a new interpretation of the archaeological record of this period.

Robbins Schug's biocultural synthesis provides us with a new way of looking at the adaptive, social, and cultural transformations that took place in this region during the first and second millennia B.C. Her work clearly and compellingly usurps the climate change paradigm, demonstrating the complexity of human-environmental transformations. This original and significant contribution to bioarchaeological research and methodology enriches our understanding of both global climate change and South Asian prehistory.

A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Автор: Maslin Mark
Название: Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198719043 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198719045
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In the new edition of Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (previously titled Global Warming), Mark Maslin explores all of the key debates. Examining the most recent scientific research, he looks what climate change is, its impact on our planet, and why it`s such a complex problem to solve.

Автор: Marie–Antoinette Mélieres,Chloé Mar&
Название: Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
ISBN: 1118708512 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118708514
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. The summaries at the end of each section constitute essential reading for policy makers and planners.

Автор: Lamb
Название: Climate: Present, Past and Future
ISBN: 0415682223 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415682220
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb`s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century.

Автор: Lamb
Название: Climate: Present, Past and Future
ISBN: 0415682231 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415682237
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb`s seminal and pioneering study of climatology.