Climatic change, wars and dynastic cycles in China over the last millennium

Climatic Change

Volumn 76, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 459-477

  Zhang, David D ^a   Jim, C Y ^a   Lin, George C S ^a   He, Yuan Qing ^b   Wang, James J ^a   Lee, Harry F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CLIMATIC CHANGE; HUMAN RACE; HUMAN SOCIETY; PALEO-CLIMATIC RECONSTRUCTION; WAR;

GLOBAL WARMING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; POPULATION DECLINE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WAR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33746195625     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-005-9024-z     Document Type: Article

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