The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change

Darren Crook; Mark Elvin; Richard  Jones; Shen Ji; Gez Foster; John Dearing

The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change

Darren Crook, Mark Elvin, Richard Jones, Shen Ji, Gez Foster, John Dearing

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Abstract

This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary methodology, which 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge.
Editors	Ellen Wiegandt
Place of Publication	Netherlands
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	21-42
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4020-6748-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4020-6747-1
Publication status	Published - 2008

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Name	Advances in Global Change Research
Publisher	Springer
Volume	31

Keywords

Erhai, human impact, catchment hydrology, environmental microvariation

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Crook, D., Elvin, M., Jones, R., Ji, S., Foster, G., & Dearing, J. (2008). The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change. In E. Wiegandt (Ed.), Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. (pp. 21-42). (Advances in Global Change Research; Vol. 31). Springer Nature.

Crook, Darren ; Elvin, Mark ; Jones, Richard et al. / The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change. Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. . editor / Ellen Wiegandt. Netherlands : Springer Nature, 2008. pp. 21-42 (Advances in Global Change Research).

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Crook, D, Elvin, M, Jones, R, Ji, S, Foster, G & Dearing, J 2008, The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change. in E Wiegandt (ed.), Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. . Advances in Global Change Research, vol. 31, Springer Nature, Netherlands, pp. 21-42.

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Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge. . ed. / Ellen Wiegandt. Netherlands: Springer Nature, 2008. p. 21-42 (Advances in Global Change Research; Vol. 31).

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