Climate Changes in the Holocene:

Impacts and Human Adaptation
Herausgeber: Chiotis, Eustathios

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Palaeoclimatology is the study of past climates and climate change, and uses a variety of methods to obtain data preserved within rocks, sediments, ice, tree rings, and shells and other matter. Studies of past changes in the environment and biodiversity can reflect on the current state of the environment, the impacts of climate on mass extinctions, adaptations, migrations, etc. This book focuses on the Holocene Epoch (approximately 11,700 years ago to the present day), and shows how climate changes can be reliably correlated with archaeological evidence. It will examine the impact of climate changes on humans and civilization through case studies from various places, periods, and climates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 257mm x 183mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1021g
• ISBN-13: 9780815365938
• ISBN-10: 0815365934
• Artikelnr.: 53170195

Autorenporträt

Eustathios Chiotis graduated from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Mining Engineering (1966), received a first MSc degree in Mineral Exploration at the Imperial College (IC), London, a second one in Petroleum Engineering also from IC, and his PhD from NTUA (1990). He served as director of geophysics at the Public Petroleum Corporation of Greece, Athens, and director of mineral resources evaluation at the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration of Greece, Athens. He has published papers on plate tectonics and the lithospheric structure in the Aegean Sea, oil exploration, Archaeometry and ancient aqueducts in particular. He co-edited the CRC Press handbook on "Underground Aqueducts" (2017) and investigated the climate deterioration as a motive for the innovative exploitation of groundwater. His areas of interest include mineral exploration and mining, petroleum engineering and geophysics, geothermal energy and drilling, Archaeometry and Ancient Greek Technology, Palaeolithics and Quaternary Geology.

Inhaltsangabe

Earth's Climate - Past and Present. Introduction. Brief description of 4.6
billion-year climate history. Climate of the Holocene. Reconstruction of
Past Climates. Climate Network. External Climate Forcings. Internal Climate
Forcings. Climate Sensitivity. Human Responses to Climate throughout the
Holocene. Homo Sapiens-Migration out of Africa. Cultural Stages and
Migrations in the Holocene. Linguistic Phylogenetics of Indo-European
Dispersal. Population Genomics in Eurasia. Near East- Eastern Mediterranean
and the Egypt of Nile. The Green Sahara and Maghreb Aridification. Iran,
the Indus Valley and India. Central and Northern Asia. Eastern Asia-China.
Pacific-Australia. Peruvian Andes. Mesoamerica and the Classic Maya.
Looking Ahead - Evaluations and Strategies Regarding Future Climate
Changes. Hydrology and Water Supply under Modern-Day Climate. Extreme
Weather Events and Changing Climate - Is there a correlation? Perspectives
of Environmental Engineering for Sustainable Development. Principles and
Criteria for Environmental Policy Making. Index.