The Social Impacts of Climate Change in China over the Past 2000 Years

This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food security. The 10 years resolution sequences indexing the status of social and economic subsystems in China over the past 2000 years are reconstructed. Statistical methods are used to reveal the major characters and main process of the impact of historical climate change on China's social economy. This book serves as a reference both for researchers, graduates, and undergraduates majoring in geography, climatology, history, and other related fields.

Describes the history of China with 2000 years long social and economic sequences Presents quantitative research on impacts of historical climate change Offers an interdisciplinary illustration on how climate change had impacted the history of China

Autorentext
Xiuqi Fang is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. He has published more than 300 articles in the fields of past climate change, climate change and civilization, and land use/cover changes.

Yun Su is Professor of physical geography, working in the Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University. She has published more than 50 articles in the fields of past climate change and its impacts. Her research interests also include natural disaster history.

Jingyun Zheng is Research Professor in climatology, working in Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has published more than 200 papers on the Chinese and international journals. Particularly, he developed the temperature series and precipitation index dataset over eastern China for the past 2000 years based on Chinese historical documents, which has been widely used for studying climatechange and the impacts in historical times.

Lingbo Xiao is Associate Professor of historical geography, working in the Institute of Qing History, Renmin University of China. His main research interests are historical climate change and its social impacts, disaster history, and environmental history.

Zhudeng Wei is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in the School of Geographical Science, Nanjing University of Information Science &Technology. He is interested in the study of past climate change, climatic impact and adaptation, and ecological meteorology.

Jun Yin is Associate Professor of physical geography, working in Lhasa Tibetan Plateau Scientific Research Center. He has worked in the field of past climate change, climate change, and social vicissitudes in China over the past two millennia.

Inhalt
Chapter 1. Mechanism and patterns of the impacts of historical climate change.- Chapter 2. The climate change in China over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 3. Conceptual model and indicators on the impact of historical climate change in China.- Chapter 4. The relationship between China's grain harvest and climate change over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 5. The relationship between China's economic fluctuation and climate change over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 6. The relationship between China's famine, peasant uprising and climate change over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 7. The relationship between the interaction of farming and nomadic groups and climate change in northern China over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 8. The relationship between China's social status and climate change over the past 2000 years.- Chapter 9. The coordination of historical climate and China's social and economic changes.- Chapter 10. The transmission process of the impacts of historical climate change in historical China.- Chapter 11. The Adaptation of climate change in historical China.- Chapter 12. Conclusion and Prospect.