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Main Title Climate Change - Environment and History of the Near East / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Issar, Arie S.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Zohar, Mattanyah.
Publisher Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
Year Published 2007
Call Number QC902.8-903.2
ISBN 9783540698524
Subjects Environmental sciences ; Sedimentology ; Geography ; Climatic changes ; Ecology ; Anthropology ; Sociology
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69852-4
Edition 2nd Edition.
Collation XXXI, 288 p. 34 illus. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes The Pendulum of Paradigms -- Constructing the Jigsaw Puzzle of Palaeo-Climates -- The Near East: A Bridge from the Garden of Eden to the Fields of Toil -- The Great Transition - From Farming Villages to Urban Centers -- The Urban Revolution and the Dawn of History -- Dark Age, Renaissance, and Decay -- Migrations and Settlings -- The Age of Iron and Empires -- Crusaders, Mamluks, and Ottomans on the Eve of the Era of Industry (ca. 800 C.E. to the Present) -- An Epilogue. When the ?rst edition of this book was published in 2004, the following year 2005 has happened to have been the warmest year since 1880, when the ?rst reliable worldwide instrumental records came into existance. Claiming no li- age between the publication of our book and the temperature record, yet this record demonstrates the trend of increase in the global surface temperatures during thepast20years,reinforcedbyevidenceofriseofatmosphere'sand oceans' temperatures, and increased melting of ice and snow in the arctic and antarctic regions as well as on mountain tops. All these observations are par- leled by the increase in the quantity of heat trapping gases in the atmosphere, causing most probably, the global greenhouse effect. In order to try and predict, what might be the impact of this effect on the on the natural and human environments of the Near East, (Figs. 1-1d) the authors adopted the saying that the past is the key for the future. The practical conclusion of this principle says that the acquiring knowledge of the impact of past climate changes on the nature and human societies, may allow conclusions with regard to future possible impact of climate changes. By correlating proxy data of all types, paleo-sea and lake levels, paleo-hydrology, pollen pro?les, environmental isotopes as well as archaeological and historical documents, the authors tried to collect as much as possible of this knowledge.
Place Published Berlin, Heidelberg
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2007
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20140517072700
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03647nam a22005535i 45