Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

Chapter 1 On the Paleo-climatic/Environmental Impacts and Socio-Cultural System Resilience along the Historical Silk Road

Chapter 2 Evolution of Saline Lakes in the Guanzhong Basin During the Past 2000 Years: Inferred from Historical Records

Chapter 3 Landscape Response to Climate and Human Impact in Western China During the Han Dynasty

Chapter 4 The Ili River Delta: Holocene Hydrogeological Evolution and Human Colonization

Chapter 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)

Chapter 6 Reconsidering Archaeological and Environmental Proxies for Long Term Human-Environment Interactions in the Valley of Kashmir

Chapter 7 Living with Earthquakes along the Silk Road

Chapter 8 Natural Disasters in the History of the Eastern Turk Empire

Chapter 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

Chapter 10 A Drought Reconstruction from the Low-Elevation Juniper Forest of Northwestern Kyrgyzstan since CE 1565

Chapter 11 Social Impacts of Climate Change in Historical China

Chapter 12 Climate Change and the Rise of the Central Asian Silk Roads

Chapter 13 The Coming of the Barbarians: Can Climate Explain the Saljūqs’ Advance?

Chapter 14 Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Oxus Civilization in Southern Central Asia

Chapter 15 Climatic and Environmental Limiting Factors in the Mongol Empire’s Westward Expansion: Exploring Causes for the Mongol Withdrawal from Hungary in 1242

Chapter 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)

Chapter 17 The Age and Origin of Karez Systems of Silk Road Oases around Turpan, Xinjiang, P.R. of China

Chapter 18 Water Supply and Ancient Society in the Lake Balkhash Basin: Runoff Variability along the Historical Silk Road

Chapter 19 Demographic Changes, Trade Routes, and the Formation of Anthropogenic Landscapes in the Middle Volga Region in the Past 2500 Years

Chapter 20 Routes Beyond Gandhara: Buddhist Rock Carvings in the Context of the Early Silk Roads

Chapter 21 Steppe and Sown: Eurasianism, Soil and the Mapping of Bukhara in the Light of Soviet Ethnographic Accounts

Chapter 22 A Karez System’s Dilemma: A Cultural Heritage on a Shelf or Still a Viable Technique for Water Resiliency in Arid Regions