Climatic change and Chinese population growth dynamics over the last millennium

Climatic Change

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 131-156

  Lee, Harry F ^a   Fok, Lincoln ^a   Zhang, David D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DROUGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

POPULATION GROWTH; TEMPERATURE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DROUGHT; HOMINID; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; RECONSTRUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 42049105853     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-007-9329-1     Document Type: Article

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