TY - CHAP
T1 - The history of irrigation and water control in China's erhai catchment
T2 - Mitigation and adaptation to environmental change
AU - Crook, Darren
AU - Elvin, Mark
AU - Jones, Richard
AU - Ji, Shen
AU - Foster, Gez
AU - Dearing, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2008, Springer.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary methodology that combines the use of archaeological and documentary sources alongside environmental proxy indicators found in sedimentary archives to assess, on a hydrological catchment scale, historical human impacts on hydrology. The advantages and benefits of this technique are demonstrated through the results taken from ongoing work on a case study, Erhai in Yunnan province, China. This approach allows us to increase understanding of local knowledge, vulnerability, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience to local, regional, and globally derived environment and climate change.
AB - This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary methodology that combines the use of archaeological and documentary sources alongside environmental proxy indicators found in sedimentary archives to assess, on a hydrological catchment scale, historical human impacts on hydrology. The advantages and benefits of this technique are demonstrated through the results taken from ongoing work on a case study, Erhai in Yunnan province, China. This approach allows us to increase understanding of local knowledge, vulnerability, mitigation, adaptation, and resilience to local, regional, and globally derived environment and climate change.
KW - Catchment hydrology
KW - Environmental microvariation
KW - Erhai
KW - Human impact
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84857919182
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6748-8_3
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4020-6748-8_3
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84857919182
T3 - Advances in Global Change Research
SP - 21
EP - 42
BT - Advances in Global Change Research
PB - Springer Nature
ER -