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28 wrz 2021 · Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions.
28 wrz 2021 · A three-thousand-year history of China’s Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape. “No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river’s function and structure.
28 wrz 2021 · Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil...
28 wrz 2021 · A three-thousand-year history of China’s Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape “No other scholar has pro...
28 wrz 2021 · A three-thousand-year history of China’s Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape. “No other scholar has produced such a systematic, comprehensive account of the long-term changes in the river’s function and structure.
This is an excellent discussion of the historic impact of the Yellow River on Chinese history and governance. It describes the many floods and course changes of the river that have occurred over recorded history, which goes back at least 2500 years.
Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions.
