Past, recent, and future climate-change impacts on hydrologic and environmental variability in selected regions of Asia

摘要

This compilation of manuscripts is the outcome of a workshop held in 2007 in Nanjing, China, which focused on past environmental variability and water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. About forty-five participants from eight countries took part in the workshop. The majority of the scientific presentations centered on Asia, although sites in Africa, Australia, and the Americas also were included. The workshop was convened by a LIMPACS working group under the auspices of the PAGES (Past Global Change) program, which is an initiative under the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP).