How climate change impacted the collapse of the Ming dynasty

Climatic Change

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 169-182

  Zheng, Jingyun ^a   Xiao, Lingbo ^a,b   Fang, Xiuqi ^a,c   Hao, Zhixin ^a   Ge, Quansheng ^a   Li, Beibei ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERIORATION; DROUGHT; FOOD SUPPLY; THERMAL PROCESSING (FOODS);

CLIMATE DETERIORATION; GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE; GOVERNMENT TROOPS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MILITARY EXPENDITURE; PER CAPITA PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION CHANGE; SOCIAL VULNERABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84939883376     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-014-1244-7     Document Type: Article

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