Environmental change and its impacts on human settlement in the Yangtze Delta, P.R. China

Catena

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-277

  Zhang, Q ^a   Zhu, C ^b   Liu, C L ^b   Jiang, T ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; Holocene epoch; Human environment correlation; Yangtze Delta

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HOLOCENE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 14144250499     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2004.12.001     Document Type: Article

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