Climate changes in the Holocene : impacts and human adaptation / edited by Eustathios Chiotis.

• SECTION 1. Advances in Climate Reconstruction / Eustathios Chiotis -- Reconstructing the Environment as a Scenery of Human History and Civilization / Eustathios Chiotis -- Proxy Indicators of Climate in the Past / Marie-Michèle Ouellet-Bernier, Anne de Vernal -- Pleistocene Glaciations / Michel Crucifix -- Solar Irradiance Variability and Earth’s Climate / Natalie Krivova -- High Resolution Climate Reconstruction of the Last 2,000 Years / Sebastian Wagner, Eduardo Zorita -- SECTION2. Tracing Major Human Migrations / Eustathios Chiotis -- Migration of Homo Sapiens Out of Africa / P. Nick Kardulias -- Ancient-DNA and Modern-DNA Genetics Can Reveal Past Population Movements / Konstantinos Voskarides -- SECTION 3. Human Responses to Climate throughout the Holocene / Eustathios Chiotis -- Climate Change, Mesoamerica, and the Classic Maya Collapse / Lisa J. Lucero, Jean T. Larmon -- From “Green” to “Brown” : The Archaeology of the Holocene Central Sahara / Savino di Lernia -- Eastern Borders of the Sahara and the Relations with the Nile Valley and Beyond / Barbara E. Barich -- Human Adaptation in Arabia : The Role of Hydraulic Technologies / Julien Charbonnier -- Hydraulic Cultures and Hydrology under Climatic Change : North Arabian Mid-Holocene Pastoral and Proto-Oasis Land Use / Hans Georg K. Gebel, Kai Wellbrock -- Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations / Guy D. Middleton -- The Iranian Plateau and the Indus River Basin / Cameron A. Petrie, Lloyd Weeks -- Interaction of Climate, Environment and Humans in North and Central Asia during the Late Glacial and Holocene / Renato Sala -- SECTION 4. Challenges Ahead / Eustathios Chiotis -- Perspectives of Climate Monitoring in the Satellite Era / Mika G. Tosca -- Perspectives of Clean Energy and Carbon Dioxide Capture, Storage and Utilization / Nikolaos Koukouzas, Vasiliki Gemeni, Nikolaos Tsoukalas -- What Lies Ahead? : The Future of the Earth and Society as an Adaptive System / Timothy Karpouzoglou, Feng Mao -- Epimetron / Michel Crucifix. 

• This book highlights climate as a complex physical, chemical, biological, and geological system, in perpetual change, under astronomical, predominantly, solar control. It has been shaped to some degree through the past glaciation cycles repeated in the last three million years. The Holocene, the current interglacial epoch which started ca. 11,700 years ago, marks the transition from the Stone Age to the unprecedented cultural evolution of our civilization. Significant climate changes have been recorded in natural archives during the Holocene, including the rapid waning of ice sheets, millennial shifting of the monsoonal fringe in the northern hemisphere, and abrupt centennial events. A typical case of severe environmental change is the greening of Sahara in the Early Holocene and the gradual desertification again since the fifth millennium before present. Climate Changes in the Holocene: Impact, Adaptation, and Resilience investigates the impact of natural climate changes on humans and civilization through case studies from various places, periods, and climates. Earth and human society are approached as a complex system, thereby emphasizing the necessity to improve adaptive capacity in view of the anthropogenic global warming and ecosystem degradation. 

Ämnesord

Paleoclimatology.  (LCSH)

Climatic changes.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

551.60901 (DDC)

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