Human-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guo, Rongxing
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2019, 2019
Edition:1st ed. 2019
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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