Peter D. Clift (Louisiana State University), Jade d'Alpoim Guedes

Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed review of variations in the Asian monsoon since the mid-Holocene and its impacts on farming systems. This book assesses data and climate models predicting changes to the monsoon in the coming centuries, and discusses how past adaptive strategies might provide clues for how to manage future change.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 772g
• ISBN-13: 9781107030084
• ISBN-10: 1107030080
• Artikelnr.: 60199596

Autorenporträt

Peter Clift is the Charles T. McCord Chair in Petroleum Geology at Louisiana State University. He is an affiliate faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yunnan University, China, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. In 2008 he co-authored The Asian Monsoon: Causes, History and Effects (Cambridge).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Temporal Variations in the Asian Monsoon
3. Monsoon and Societies in Southwest Asia
4. Origins of a Uniquely Adaptive Farming System: Rice Farming Systems in Monsoon Asia
5. Dryland Farming in the Northern Monsoon Frontier
6. Recent Changes in Monsoon Climate
7. Future Monsoon Predictions
References
Index.