The Social-Ecological Resilience and the Coordination of Historical Climate and Social and Economic Changes in China
摘要
As an agriculture-oriented society, the traditional China had been strongly impacted by climate change. The issue about how climate change impact the social development in the history of China was discussed in the perspective of social-ecological resilience. The general characteristics of the impacts of historical climate change could be summed as, negative in the cold periods and positive in the warm periods. Adaptation could not only help people to avoid the harmful impacts of climate change, but also is a chance for creating new social-ecological resilience to keep Chinese civilization development continually.