Human-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations
This book explores the factors and mechanisms that may have influenced the dynamic behaviors of earliest civilizations, focusing on both environmental (geographic) factors on which traditional historic analyses are based and human (behavioral) factors on
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HumanEarth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations
Human-Earth System Dynamics
Rongxing Guo
Human-Earth System Dynamics Implications to Civilizations
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Rongxing Guo Capital University of Economics and Business Beijing China
2018 High Talent Program of Beijing Municipal Government Capital University of Economics and Business, Information School, Beijing, China. ISBN 978-981-13-0546-7 ISBN 978-981-13-0547-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0547-4
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To my new colleagues at the Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing
Acknowledgements
This book is part of a larger research project supported by the National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) entitled “A Study of China’s Industrial Agglomeration: Evolution and the Cultivation of New Driving Forces” (No. 71733001). Many organizations and individuals have provided generous help while the book was prepared. Specifically, the 2018 High Talent Program of Beijing Municipal Government has enabled me to conduct this research without too many loads of teaching and other academic commitments. I particularly thank Professor Eui-Gak Hwang (Seoul), Professor Xinjian Li (Tokyo), Dr. Francis Lankester (Durham), Dr. Xiaoxuan Lu (Hong Kong), Dr. Matthew Piscitelli (Chicago), Professor Vicky Xiubao Yu (Shanghai), Professor Kaizhong Yang (Beijing), and Professor Zhang Yongze (Beijing)—without their generous assistance and advice, this book would not have been finished, at least not in the present appearance. I must me
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