High Asia
Author: Clint Granger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-01-07
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1453570381
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Author: Clint Granger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-01-07
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1453570381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Matthias Kuhle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-06-27
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 3319775669
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book summarizes four decades of glacial-geomorphological field research in Central and High Asia in an attempt to draw a significant link between Quaternary science research and paleoclimatology. Based on the latest geomorphological findings, this study offers a large-scale reconstruction of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) that in High Asia encompassed a total expanse of no less than three million km2, including the Central Tibetan plateau with 2.4 million km2. The author offers a complete reconstruction of the Late Glacial, Holocene, and Historical glacier advances as well as the successive Postglacial ablation stages extending to the present. Taken together, the findings presented here provide the first insights into a global-climatic impact of the Last Glacial Maximum in Central and High Asia with respect to the current interglacial stage. The comparative data analyses point to an inland glaciation at subtropical latitude covering an area larger than the Nordic inland glaciation in Greenland. These insights are facilitated by a methodological approach, unprecedented in modern Quaternary research, that combines high-quality panoramic photography with high-resolution satellite imagery. This combination of terrestrial and aerial perspectives enables scientists and readers alike to visualize the geomorphology of the landscape as a three-dimensional space. The author’s successful union of digital big data resources with classical geomorphological analysis offers an exciting new template for future research in Quaternary science and related fields.
Author: Hermann Kreutzmann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-03-28
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9400738455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn conventional views, pastoralism was classified as a stage of civilization that needed to be abolished and transcended in order to reach a higher level of development. In this context, global approaches to modernize a rural society have been ubiquitous phenomena independent of ideological contexts. The 20th century experienced a variety of concepts to settle mobile groups and to transfer their lifestyles to modern perceptions. Permanent settlements are the vivid expression of an ideology-driven approach. Modernization theory captured all walks of life and tried to optimize breeding techniques, pasture utilization, transport and processing concepts. New insights into other aspects of pastoralism such as its role as an adaptive strategy to use marginal resources in remote locations with difficult access could only be understood as a critique of capitalist and communist concepts of modernization. In recent years a renaissance of modernization theory-led development activities can be observed. Higher inputs from external funding, fencing of pastures and settlement of pastoralists in new townships are the vivid expression of 'modern' pastoralism in urban contexts. The new modernization programme incorporates resettlement and transformation of lifestyles as to be justified by environmental pressure in order to reduce degradation in the age of climate change.
Author: Janet Rizvi
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 1999-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780195645460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLadakh, last outpost of Tibetan civilization, is isolated from the rest of India as well as Tibet by the world's highest mountains. This book has been accepted as a standard work since its first appearance in 1983. It contains a detailed analysis of the economic and social change that has taken place since 1974.
Author: Schlagintweit
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakŭnlünski
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 622
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert von Schlagintweit
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2022-05-15
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 3375033745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Author: Hermann “von” Schlagintweit
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Published: 1862
Total Pages: 590
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hermann von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 542
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 38
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