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Front Matter
Part I. Introduction
1. On the Paleo-climatic/Environmental Impacts and Socio-Cultural System Resilience along the Historical Silk Road
Part II. Landscape Evolutions in the Human-Environment System
2. Evolution of Saline Lakes in the Guanzhong Basin During the Past 2000 Years: Inferred from Historical Records
3. Landscape Response to Climate and Human Impact in Western China During the Han Dynasty
4. The Ili River Delta: Holocene Hydrogeological Evolution and Human Colonization
5. Quantitative Evaluation of the Impact on Aral Sea Levels by Anthropogenic Water Withdrawal and Syr Darya Course Diversion During the Medieval Period (1.0–0.8 ka BP)
6. Reconsidering Archaeological and Environmental Proxies for Long Term Human-Environment Interactions in the Valley of Kashmir
Part III. Natural Disasters and Impacts in the Past Societies
7. Living with Earthquakes along the Silk Road
8. Natural Disasters in the History of the Eastern Turk Empire
9. Dry and Humid Periods Reconstructed from Tree Rings in the Former Territory of Sogdiana (Central Asia) and Their Socio-economic Consequences over the Last Millennium
10. A Drought Reconstruction from the Low-Elevation Juniper Forest of Northwestern Kyrgyzstan since CE 1565
Part IV. Climatic Factors in the Transitions of Social Systems
11. Social Impacts of Climate Change in Historical China
12. Climate Change and the Rise of the Central Asian Silk Roads
13. The Coming of the Barbarians: Can Climate Explain the Saljūqs’ Advance?
14. Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia
15. Climatic and Environmental Limiting Factors in the Mongol Empire’s Westward Expansion: Exploring Causes for the Mongol Withdrawal from Hungary in 1242
Part V. Social Adaptation and Resilience to Environmental Stresses
16. Resilience of the Human-Water System at the Southern Silk Road: A Case Study of the Northern Catchment of Erhai Lake, China (1382–1912)
17. The Age and Origin of Karez Systems of Silk Road Oases around Turpan, Xinjiang, P.R. of China
18. Water Supply and Ancient Society in the Lake Balkhash Basin: Runoff Variability along the Historical Silk Road
19. Demographic Changes, Trade Routes, and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes in the Middle Volga Region in the Past 2500 Years
Part VI. Social-Culture in Connection with the Environment
20. Routes Beyond Gandhara: Buddhist Rock Carvings in the Context of the Early Silk Roads
21. Steppe and Sown: Eurasianism, Soil and the Mapping of Bukhara in the Light of Soviet Ethnographic Accounts
22. A Karez System’s Dilemma: A Cultural Heritage on a Shelf or Still a Viable Technique for Water Resiliency in Arid Regions
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