Water, Life and Civilisation: Climate, Environment and Society in the Jordan Valley

Book Overview

A unique interdisciplinary study of the relationships between climate, hydrology and human society from 20,000 years ago to the present day within the Jordan Valley. It describes how state-of-the-art models can simulate the past, present and future climates of the Near East, reviews and provides new evidence for environmental change from geological deposits, builds hydrological models for the River Jordan and associated wadis and explains how present...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521769574
• ISBN13: 9780521769570
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.1" x 10.9"