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

Clift/d'Alpoim Guedes

 
9781107030084: Monsoon Rains, Great Rivers and the Development of Farming Civilisations in Asia
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1107030080 ISBN 13: 9781107030084
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A detailed review of climate change and its impacts on farming systems since the Neolithic, including anticipated future changes.

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About the Authors

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).

Jade d'Alpoim Guedes is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California. Jade is an environmental archaeologist and ethnobiologist who employs an interdisciplinary research program to understand how humans adapted their foraging practices and agricultural strategies to new environments and have developed resilience in the face of climatic and social change.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107030080
ISBN 13 
9781107030084
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
350