Browsing Research publications by Author "Elvin, Mark"
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An Argument From Silence? The Implications of Xu Xiake's Description of the Miju River in 1639
Elvin, Mark; Crook, Darren (Yunnan University Press, 2003) -
Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. : Mapping the Miju River
Crook, Darren; Elvin, Mark (2013-12)The sequence of twelve woodblock maps presented here from the mid-nineteenth-century gazetteer for the department of Dengchuan in southwest China shows the Miju river and the irrigation system that lay at the heart of its ... -
The history of irrigation and water control in the Lake Erhai Catchment, Yunnan Province, China: mitigation and adaptation to environmental and climate change
Crook, Darren; Elvin, Mark; Jones, Richard; Ji, Shen; Foster, Gez; Dearing, John (Springer Nature, 2008)This chapter introduces an interdisciplinary methodology, which combines the use of archaeological and documentary sources alongside environmental proxy indicators found in sedimentary archives, to assess on a hydrological ... -
An inter-continental comparison between the environmental histories of two Lake Catchment systems in montane environments of France and South West China
Crook, Darren; Dearing, John; Jones, Richard; Elvin, Mark (2011)Inter-continental comparisons of environmental histories can improve understanding of environmental problems and hazards, and suggest possible actions to promote adaptive capacity and resilience in communities. This paper ...