Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and their Impact on Man
Editat de T. M. L. Wigley, M. J. Ingram, G. Farmeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 oct 1985
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521312202
ISBN-10: 0521312205
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: index
Dimensiuni: 229 x 152 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0521312205
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: index
Dimensiuni: 229 x 152 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of contributors; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Past climates and their impact on man: a review M. J. Ingram, G. Farmer and T. M. L. Wigley; Part II. Reconstruction of Past Climates: 2. The use of stable isotope data in climate reconstruction J. Gray; 3. Glaciological evidence of Holocene climatic change S. C. Porter; 4. The use of pollen analysis in the reconstruction of past climates: a review H. J. B. Birks; 5. Reconstructing seasonal to century time scale variations in climate from tree-ring evidence H. C. Fritts, G. R. Lofgren and G. A. Gordon; 6. Archaeological evidence for climatic change during the last 5000 years R. McGhee; 7. The use of documentary sources for the study of past climates M. J. Ingram, D. J. Underhill and G. Farmer; 8. An analysis of the little Ice Age climate in Switzerland and its consequences for agricultural production C. Pfister; 9. The historical climatology of Africa S. E. Nicholson; 10. Drought and floods in China, 1470–1979 Wand Shao-Wu and Zhao Zong-Ci; Part III. Towards a Theory of Climate History Interactions: 11. An approach to the study of the development of climate and its impact in human affairs H. H. Lamb; 12. Short-term climactic fluctuations and their economic role H. Flohn; 13. Climatic change and the agricultural frontier: a research strategy M. L. Parry; 14. History and climate: some economic models J. L. Anderson; 15. Climate and popular unrest in late medieval Castile A. Mackay; Part IV. Climate-History Interactions: Some Case Studies: 16. Climate, environment and history: the case of Roman North Africa B. D. Shaw; 17. The economics of extinction in Norse Greenland T. H. McGovern; 18. Weather and the peasantry of Upper Brittany, 1780–89 D. M. G. Sutherland; 19. Climatic stress and Maine agriculture, 1785–1885 D. C. Smith, H. W. Borns, W. R. Baron and A. E. Bridges; 20. Droughts in India over the last 200 years, and their socio-economic impacts and remedial measures for them D. A. Mooley and G. B. Pant; 21. The effect of climate fluctuations on human populations: two hypotheses M. J. Bowden, R. W. Kates, P. A. Kay, W. E. Riebsame, R. A. Warrick, D. L. Johnson, H. A. Gould and D. Weiner; Author index; Subject index.
Descriere
This 1985 book was the first major survey of both the methodology of climatic reconstruction and the problem of climate/history interactions.