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DOI	10.1038/s41893-019-0397-9
	Domino effect of climate change over two millennia in ancient China’s Hexi Corridor
	Feng Q.; Yang L.; Deo R.C.; AghaKouchak A.; Adamowski J.F.; Stone R.; Yin Z.; Liu W.; Si J.; Wen X.; Zhu M.; Cao S.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	2398-9629
起始页码	957
结束页码	961
卷号	2 期号:10
英文摘要	Climate change, population growth and extreme events can trigger social crises and instability. The processes that dominate a society’s emergence, resilience and collapse, and the complex interactions among such processes, operating within a small region, at a multicentury or even larger time scale, remain to be identified. The causes or driving forces responsible for societal changes must be identified for a plausible explanation. Historical records provide unique examples of societies that have failed to develop buffers and strategic resilience against climate change and natural variability. Using a wide range of observations from China’s Hexi Corridor, the complex interactive processes linking climate change with human society over the past two millennia were investigated. This paper proposes a domino effect resulting from a society’s failure to respond to climate change in which individual small problems create a greater challenge over long time spans. Building resilience against the impacts of climate change requires a deep understanding of social and environmental feedbacks to create a reliable buffer against future changes. This study offers lessons learned from the past 2,000 years that remain relevant today, given the projected changes in climate and extreme events. © 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Population statistics; Driving forces; Extreme events; Historical records; Interactive process; Natural variability; Population growth; Social and environmental; Societal changes; Climate change
来源期刊	Nature Sustainability
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/163171
作者单位	Key Laboratory of Ecohydrology of Inland River Basin, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China; School of Sciences, Centre for Applied Climate Sciences & Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Springfield, QLD, Australia; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States; Department of Bioresource Engineering, Faculty of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, Institute of Life Sciences and the Environment, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, QLD, Australia; School of Economics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Feng Q.,Yang L.,Deo R.C.,等. Domino effect of climate change over two millennia in ancient China’s Hexi Corridor[J],2019,2(10).
APA	Feng Q..,Yang L..,Deo R.C..,AghaKouchak A..,Adamowski J.F..,...&Cao S..(2019).Domino effect of climate change over two millennia in ancient China’s Hexi Corridor.Nature Sustainability,2(10).
MLA	Feng Q.,et al."Domino effect of climate change over two millennia in ancient China’s Hexi Corridor".Nature Sustainability 2.10(2019).