Books and book chapters
The only collective multidisciplinary survey of historical responses to risk, mitigation and resilience.
International group of specialists in several fields working collaboratively.
Directly responds to current concerns about relevance of historical lessons for contemporary policy.
Part of the book series: Risk, Systems and Decisions (RSD)
This volume contains original research papers presented at the PAGES sponsored Second International Symposium on the Limnology, Climatology, Palaeoclimatology, and Biodiversity of the African Great Lakes, organized by the International Decade for the East African Lakes (IDEAL).
The book, volume 12 of the Advances in Global Change Research series, provides comprehensive coverage of the large lakes of the African Rift System, touching on climate, limnology, palaeoclimatology, sedimentation processes, biodiversity, and management issues of lake systems such as Lakes Victoria, Tanganyika, and Malawi.
It serves as a basis for understanding the lakes' system history and sensitivity to processes of change, thus providing an essential tool for decisions related to the sustainable management of such precious resources.
This book has been written to be of interest to a wide audience, including limnologists, palaeoclimatologists, evolutionary biology students and researchers, as well as people generally interested in the aquatic environment.
ISBN 978-1-4020-0772-9
In Runge J, Gosling WD, Lezine A-M and Scott L (Eds) (2021)
Quaternary Vegetation Dynamics – The African Pollen Database: The African Pollen Database (1st ed.). CRC Press: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003162766
This study is also a contribution to the Past Global Change (PAGES)project and its working group LandCover 6k (http://pastglobalchanges.org/landcover6k), whichin turn received support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Academy ofSciences, the US National Science Foundation, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Qing Pei works as an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong. Before joining the department in 2016, he used to work in the University of Cambridge, UK, the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and the University of Hong Kong. As a historical geographer, Dr. Pei’s research interests span across physical and human geography, with specific focus on social responses to climate change in human history, methodology development in environmental history and humanities, and environmental change and world history. So far, he has published more than 40 papers in SCI/SSCI-indexed journals, including Nature, PNAS, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Global Ecology and Biogeography, and Environmental Research Letters. In recent years, he won different prizes and honors, such as Carson Fellowship from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Nature Science Award) from the Ministry of Education, China, and Li Ka Shing Prize. He is currently leading a research project entitled “Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from the Archives of Societies” under the PAGES (Past Global Changes).
Sam White is one of the PAGES CRIAS working group leaders.
This book chapter/work was fostered by participation in the Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS) working group of PAGES (Past Global Changes).
This edited book volume which resulted from a PAGES-supported workshop held in September 2017 in Kiel, Germany, focuses on possible links between social upheaval, resource utilization, and climate or environmental forces along the ancient Silk Road in China
This book chapter is a contribution to PAGES' VICS working group.
This book chapter is a contribution to PAGES' VICS working group.