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• 1. [Image] Geneticists Trace Migration of Mideast Agriculturalists to Europe

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Geneticists Trace Migration of Mideast Agriculturalists to Europe Year: 2008 Title: Geneticists Trace Migration of Mideast Agriculturalists to Europe Year: 2008 Close

• 2. [Image] Report on the Status of the Project on Environmental Change and Acute Conflict

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Report on the Status of the Project on Environmental Change and Acute Conflict Year: 1992 Title: Report on the Status of the Project on Environmental Change and Acute Conflict Year: 1992 Close

• 3. [Image] Drought Devastates the Western Sudan

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Drought Devastates the Western Sudan Year: 1984 Title: Drought Devastates the Western Sudan Year: 1984 Close

• 4. [Image] Notes on State Department Meeting 6/24-25/92 Regarding May Vienna Multilateral Negotiations

  	Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Notes on State Department Meeting 6/24-25/92 Regarding May Vienna Multilateral Negotiations Year: 1992 Title: Notes on State Department Meeting 6/24-25/92 Regarding May Vienna Multilateral Negotiations Year: 1992 Close

• 5. [Article] North America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

  The United States (U.S.) and Canada will experience climate changes through direct effects of local changes (e.g., temperature, precipitation and extreme weather events), as well as through indirect effects, ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: North America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Author: Fields, Christopher B., Mortsch, Linda D., Brklacich, Michael, Forbes, Donald L., Kovacs, Paul, Patz, Jonathan A., Running, Steven W., Scott, Michael J., Andrey, Jean, Cayan, Dan, Demuth, Mike, Hamlet, Alan, Jones, Gregory, Mills, Evan, Mills, Scott, Minns, Charles K., Sailor, David J., Saunders, Mark, Scott, Daniel, Solecki, William Year: 2007 The United States (U.S.) and Canada will experience climate changes through direct effects of local changes (e.g., temperature, precipitation and extreme weather events), as well as through indirect effects, transmitted among regions by interconnected economies and migrations of humans and other species. Variations in wealth and geography, however, lead to an uneven distribution of likely impacts, vulnerabilities and capacities to adapt. This chapter reviews and synthesises the state of knowledge on direct and indirect impacts, vulnerability and adaptations for North America (comprising Canada and the U.S). Hawaii and other U.S. protectorates are discussed in Chapter 16 on Small Islands, and Mexico and Central America are treated in Chapter 13 on Latin America. Chapter 15, Polar Regions, covers high-latitude issues and peoples. Title: North America. Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability Author: Fields, Christopher B., Mortsch, Linda D., Brklacich, Michael, Forbes, Donald L., Kovacs, Paul, Patz, Jonathan A., Running, Steven W., Scott, Michael J., Andrey, Jean, Cayan, Dan, Demuth, Mike, Hamlet, Alan, Jones, Gregory, Mills, Evan, Mills, Scott, Minns, Charles K., Sailor, David J., Saunders, Mark, Scott, Daniel, Solecki, William Year: 2007 The United States (U.S.) and Canada will experience climate changes through direct effects of local changes (e.g., temperature, precipitation and extreme weather events), as well as through indirect effects, transmitted among regions by interconnected economies and migrations of humans and other species. Variations in wealth and geography, however, lead to an uneven distribution of likely impacts, vulnerabilities and capacities to adapt. This chapter reviews and synthesises the state of knowledge on direct and indirect impacts, vulnerability and adaptations for North America (comprising Canada and the U.S). Hawaii and other U.S. protectorates are discussed in Chapter 16 on Small Islands, and Mexico and Central America are treated in Chapter 13 on Latin America. Chapter 15, Polar Regions, covers high-latitude issues and peoples. Close

• 6. [Article] Beyond Sustainable Bounds: Changing Weather, Emigration, and Irrigation in a Farming Village of Sichuan, China, 1945-2012

  This thesis presents the results of research in a small village located in the mountains of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. The thesis argues that traditional irrigation practices vital to paddy-rice ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Beyond Sustainable Bounds: Changing Weather, Emigration, and Irrigation in a Farming Village of Sichuan, China, 1945-2012 Author: Parker, Joseph Lynn Year: 2013 This thesis presents the results of research in a small village located in the mountains of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. The thesis argues that traditional irrigation practices vital to paddy-rice production in the village have been stressed by local weather events. It also argues that local villagers have not responded effectively to such changes, and that failure to adjust has contributed to social stress observed at the site. During the earlier years of the study period (1945 to 2012), improvements were made in local irrigation, which seem to have helped farmers continue with traditional subsistence wet-rice farming in a fragile mountain environment. However, in later years of the period village social order showed two significant signs of collapse: first, because of emigration, fewer people were left to farm higher mountain levels so farm land was being abandoned; second, social crowding in lower level riverside farming areas, partly the result of highland emigration, began reducing the amount of land being farmed there. While reducing intensive cropping of highland farming areas can result in spontaneous recovery of natural resources such as soil and water, crowding in lower areas can contribute to deterioration of natural resources in the lower village farmland. Crowding can, in addition, have a bearing on community health problems. The thesis results are of value to researchers concerned with the adaptive behavior of local farming communities trying to maintain their traditional irrigation-dependent way of life in a fragile mountain environment while experiencing the effects of changeable weather. Thesis results are of additional value to those who study the impact on society of earth-warming, especially if variable local weather in the Dabashan is shown to be related to global climate change. Title: Beyond Sustainable Bounds: Changing Weather, Emigration, and Irrigation in a Farming Village of Sichuan, China, 1945-2012 Author: Parker, Joseph Lynn Year: 2013 This thesis presents the results of research in a small village located in the mountains of Sichuan Province in southwestern China. The thesis argues that traditional irrigation practices vital to paddy-rice production in the village have been stressed by local weather events. It also argues that local villagers have not responded effectively to such changes, and that failure to adjust has contributed to social stress observed at the site. During the earlier years of the study period (1945 to 2012), improvements were made in local irrigation, which seem to have helped farmers continue with traditional subsistence wet-rice farming in a fragile mountain environment. However, in later years of the period village social order showed two significant signs of collapse: first, because of emigration, fewer people were left to farm higher mountain levels so farm land was being abandoned; second, social crowding in lower level riverside farming areas, partly the result of highland emigration, began reducing the amount of land being farmed there. While reducing intensive cropping of highland farming areas can result in spontaneous recovery of natural resources such as soil and water, crowding in lower areas can contribute to deterioration of natural resources in the lower village farmland. Crowding can, in addition, have a bearing on community health problems. The thesis results are of value to researchers concerned with the adaptive behavior of local farming communities trying to maintain their traditional irrigation-dependent way of life in a fragile mountain environment while experiencing the effects of changeable weather. Thesis results are of additional value to those who study the impact on society of earth-warming, especially if variable local weather in the Dabashan is shown to be related to global climate change. Close