Human-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations /

• Main Author: Guo, Rongxing (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Human geography.; World history.; Historiography.; Human Geography.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Historiography and Method.

This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on which anthropological analyses are usually ba...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Win-Stay, Lose-Shift: A Survival Rule
• Human Thermodynamics and Culture (I)
• Human Thermodynamics and Culture (II)
• Environment Matters, But Not the Way You Think
• Civilization as Responses to Cyclical Challenges
• Let the Floods Come More Violent
• Glossary.