Journal Article10.1080/17477891.2017.1398062
Adaptive flood hazard management strategy and its effect on settlements in the lower Yellow River area in Ming–Qing China: a case study of Kaifeng Prefecture
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the settlements and embankments of the Yellow River in central China in late imperial China (late fourteenth century to the early twentieth century) through the approach of historical geographical information system.
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About: This article is published in Environmental Hazards. The article was published on 15 Mar 2018. The article focuses on the topics: Flood myth & China.
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