Climatic Change Reconsidered: Another Look at "The Pulse of Asia"

Chappell, John E.

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“…(hi) Sinkiang, particularly the Tarim basin in central Asia near 36-42° N, 80-90° E, was crossed by the ancient Silk Route which was used by trading caravans between China and the west in Roman times, when there was a chain of cities and settlements there and remnants of forest. Today it is largely a sandy desert (Wadia i960;Chappell 1970Chappell , 1971.…”

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Climate, vegetation and forest limits in early civilized times

Lamb

1974

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A

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After reviewing the basic conditions which govern climate and the distribution of climates over the globe, with particular attention to the large-scale circulation of the atmosphere and the variations which it undergoes, this contribution proceeds to consider the sites of the early centres of civilization (particularly those that flourished between about 3000 and 1000 b.c.) and routes of travel by land and sea, some of which stand in a surprising relationship to the natural environment as it exists today. The sequences of variations of prevailing temperature, of sea level, of forest limits and rainfall, cloudiness, etc., and of the levels of great inland waters are reconstructed and lead to a consistent picture of the broad sequence of climatic regimes: for those regimes which differed most from the present-day northern hemisphere maps can be given. Climatic fluctuations on time scales from a decade or two to a few centuries are then considered: fluctuations tending to repeat at 200 or 400-year intervals seem rather prominent.

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Climate, vegetation and forest limits in early civilized times

Lamb

1974

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“…For historian's rejection of climatological paradigm and the re-emergence of environmental history seeChappell (1970) andBrentjes (1986).…”

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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

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Fang³

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“…This determinist -free will schism, within the domain of the social sciences, has been extensively re-examined in climate -culture interactions by what can be described as multi-factorial historical studies (Toynbee 1945;Markham 1947;Carpenter 1968;Chappell 1970;Bell 1971;Ladurie 1972;Bryson and Murray 1977;Lamb 1977, 1982, Post 1977Parry 1978;Pfister 1978Pfister , 1981de Vries 1980;Fischer 1980;Lee 1981;Shaw 1981). The critical role of environmental forcing also has been reinterpreted within the new and exciting integrative fields of sociobiology (Wilson 1975) and evolutionary psychology (Cosmides and Tooby 1997).…”

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Human Adaptation within a Paradigm of Climatic Determinism and Change

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Biometeorology for Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change

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Oversimplified interpretations of climate impacts, by Ellsworth Huntington and his contemporaries, lead to academic alienation and at times misguided social policy. The purpose of this chapter is to examine some perceptions about climatic determinism and scientific attitudes, and offer a different perspective on 'adaptation' within a changing climatic environment. Man-atmosphere interrelationships and adaptations are embedded within complex homeostatic and dynamic systems, which operate at several levels of human organization. An adaptive model, based on human thermoregulatory response to climate variability and hazards is presented to allow integration between several orders of impacts and essential control processes. However, given the uncertainty of both climate change and human responses, it is emphasized that adaptability of society and individuals is preferable to attaining adaptation to particular environmental conditions.

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Climatic Change Reconsidered: Another Look at "The Pulse of Asia"

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Climate, vegetation and forest limits in early civilized times

Climate, vegetation and forest limits in early civilized times

Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

Human Adaptation within a Paradigm of Climatic Determinism and Change

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