1 School of Geography,Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875; 2 The Institute of Qing History,Renmin University of China,Beijing 100872; 3 Key Laboratory of Land Surface Pattern and Simulation,Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research,CAS,Beijing 100101; 4 Institute for the History of Science and Technology,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,Nanjing 210044,Jiangsu
Abstract Social impacts of historical climate change and human adaptation are one of the hotspots in the current global change research. In recent years,utilizing the abundant historical literatures,new progress on the interaction mechanisms and processes within the human-climate-ecosystem complex in China during the past 2000 years,has been achieved. It could be summarized as follows: Firstly,a concept model of impact and response of historical climate change in China based on food security has been built;Secondly,a series of historical social-economic series on the base of semantic differential to serve the research on impacts of climate change have been quantitatively reconstructed;Thirdly,the general characteristics of the impacts of historical climate change could be summarized as negative in the cold periods and positive in the warm periods,with time and space differences in the impact and responses.In the future,the studies on historical climate impacts should be focused on spatial and temporal diversification,regional comprehensive analysis and comparison,and multidiscipline integration.
Fund:Co-funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41371201)and the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China(973 Program)(No.2010CB950103)
About author: Fang Xiuqi, born in 1962, obtained his Ph.D. degree from Beijing Normal University in 1994, now is a professor in Physical Geography at School of Geography, Beijing Normal University. His major research field is environment change. E-mail: xfang@bnu.edu.cn.
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Fang Xiuqi,Xiao Lingbo,Su Yun et al. Social impacts of climate change on the history of China[J]. JOPC, 2017, 19(4): 729-736.
Fang Xiuqi,Xiao Lingbo,Su Yun et al. Social impacts of climate change on the history of China[J]. JOPC, 2017, 19(4): 729-736.
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