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Water, life and civilisation : climate, environment and society in the Jordan Valley /
"A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-art models can simulate the past, present and future climates of the Near East, reviews and provid...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | International hydrology series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. I. Past, present and future climate. The present day climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others]
- Past climates of the Middle East / David Brayshaw [and others]
- Future climate of the Middle East / Emily Black [and others]
- Connecting climate and hydrological models for impact studies / Emily Black
- pt. II. The palaeoenvironmental record. Review of palaeoclimates and palaeoenvironments in the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean from 25,000 to 5000 years BP : setting the environmental background for the evolution of human civilisation / Stuart Robinson [and others]
- Palaeoenvironments of the southern Levant from 5000 BP to present : linking the geological and archaeological records / Claire Rambeau and Stuart Black
- Using proxy data, historical climate data and climate models to investigate aridification during the Holocene / Emily Black [and others]
- Palaeoenvironmental and limnological reconstruction of Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea / Stuart Black [and others].
- pt. III. Hydrological studies of the Jordan Valley. Impacts of climate change on rainfall-runoff in the upper River Jordan : methodology and first projections / Andrew Wade [and others]
- Modelling Dead Sea levels and rainfall : past, present and future / Paul Whitehead [and others]
- Hydrology of the Wadi Faynan / Andrew Wade [and others]
- Future projections of water availability in a semi-arid region of the eastern Mediterranean : a case study of Wadi Hasa, Jordan / Andrew Wade [and others]
- pt. IV. Human settlement, climate change, hydrology and water management. Archaeology of water management in the Jordan Valley from the Epipalaeolithic to the Nabataean, 21,000 BP (19,000 BC) to AD 106 / Bill Finlayson [and others]
- From global climate change to local impact in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan : ten millennia of human settlement in its hydrological context / Sam Smith
- Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction at Beidha, southern Jordan (c. 18,000-8,500 BP) : implications for human occupation during the Natufian and pre-pottery Neolithic / Claire Rambaeu
- Influence of water on Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age settlement patterns in the southern Levant / Jaimie Lovell and Andrew Bradley
- Modelling water resources and climate change at the Bronze Age site of Jawa in northern Jordan : a new approach utilising stochastic simulation techniques / Paul Whitehead, Sam Smith and Andrew Wade
- Millennium of rainfall, settlement and water-management at Humayma, southern Jordan, c. 2,050-1,150 BP (100 BC-800 AD) / Rebecca Foote [and others].
- pt. V. Palaeo-economies and developing archaeological methodologies. Reconstruction of diet and environment in ancient Jordan by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains / Michela Sandias
- Irrigation and phytolith formation : an experimental study / Emma Jenkins, Khalil Jamjoum and Sameeh Al Nuimat
- Investigation into the archaeological application of carbon stable isotope analysis used to establish crop water availability : solutions and ways forward / Helen Stokes, Gundula Müldner and Emma Jenkins
- Past plant use in Jordan as revealed by archaeological and ethnoarchaeological phytolith signatures / Emma Jenkins, Ambroise Baker and Sarah Elliott
- pt. VI. Society, economy and water today. Current water demands and future strategies under changing climatic conditions / Stephen Nortcliff, Emily Black and Robert Potter
- Water reuse for irrigated agriculture in Jordan : soil sustainability, perceptions and management / Genma Carr
- Social equity issues and water supply under conditions of 'water stress' : a study of low- and high-income households in Greater Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter
- Role of water and land management policies in contemporary socio-economic development in Wadi Faynan / Khadija Darmame, Stephen Nortcliff and Robert Potter
- Political discourses and public narratives on water supply issues in Amman, Jordan / Khadija Darmame and Robert Potter
- pt. VII. Conclusions. Overview and reflections : 20,000 years of water and human settlement in the southern Levant / Steven Mithen and Emily Black.