Chapter 1. Mechanism and patterns of the impacts of historical climate change -- Chapter 2. The climate change in China over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 3. Conceptual model and indicators on the impact of historical climate change in China -- Chapter 4. The relationship between China's grain harvest and climate change over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 5. The relationship between China's economic fluctuation and climate change over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 6. The relationship between China's famine, peasant uprising and climate change over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 7. The relationship between the interaction of farming and nomadic groups and climate change in northern China over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 8. The relationship between China's social status and climate change over the past 2000 years -- Chapter 9. The coordination of historical climate and China's social and economic changes -- Chapter 10. The transmission process of the impacts of historical climate change in historical China -- Chapter 11. The Adaptation of climate change in historical China -- Chapter 12. Conclusion and Prospect. .

This book aims to illustrate how climate change had impacted the socio-economic development in the history of China, under the framework of food security. The 10 years resolution sequences indexing the status of social and economic subsystems in China over the past 2000 years are reconstructed. Statistical methods are used to reveal the major characters and main process of the impact of historical climate change on China's social economy. This book serves as a reference both for researchers, graduates, and undergraduates majoring in geography, climatology, history, and other related fields.