Human-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Guo, Rongxing (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.