Section I Advances in Climate Reconstruction
Chapter 1 Reconstructing the Environment as a Scenery of Human History and Civilization
[Eustathios Chiotis]
Chapter 2 Proxy Indicators of Climate in the Past
[Marie-Michèle Ouellet-Bernier and Anne de Vernal]
Chapter 3 Pleistocene Glaciations
[Michel Crucifix]
Chapter 4 Solar Irradiance Variability and Earth’s Climate
[Natalie Krivova]
Chapter 5 High Resolution Climate Reconstruction of the Last 2,000 Years
[Sebastian Wagner and Eduardo Zorita]
Section II Tracing Major Human Migrations
Chapter 6 Migration of Homo Sapiens Out of Africa
[P. Nick Kardulias]
Chapter 7 Ancient-DNA and Modern-DNA Genetics Can Reveal Past Population
Movements
[Konstantinos Voskarides]
Section III Human Responses to Climate throughout
the Holocene
Chapter 8 Climate Change, Mesoamerica, and the Classic Maya Collapse
[Lisa J. Lucero and Jean T. Larmon]
Chapter 9 From “Green” to “Brown”: The Archaeology of the Holocene Central Sahara
[Savino di Lernia]
Chapter 10 Eastern Borders of the Sahara and the Relations with the
Nile Valley and Beyond
[Barbara E. Barich]
Chapter 11 Human Adaptation in Arabia: The Role of Hydraulic Technologies
[Julien Charbonnier]
Chapter 12 Hydraulic Cultures and Hydrology under Climatic Change: North Arabian
Mid-Holocene Pastoral and Proto-Oasis Land Use
[Hans Georg K. Gebel and Kai Wellbrock]
Chapter 13 Collapse of Bronze Age Civilizations
[Guy D. Middleton]
Chapter 14 The Iranian Plateau and the Indus River Basin
[Cameron A. Petrie and Lloyd Weeks]
Chapter 15 Interaction of Climate, Environment and Humans in North and Central Asia
during the Late Glacial and Holocene
[Renato Sala]
Section IV Challenges Ahead
Chapter 16 Perspectives of Climate Monitoring in the Satellite Era
[Mika G. Tosca]
Chapter 17 Perspectives of Clean Energy and Carbon Dioxide Capture,
Storage and Utilization
[Nikolaos Koukouzas, Vasiliki Gemeni, and Nikolaos Tsoukalas]
Chapter 18 What Lies Ahead?: The Future of the Earth and Society as an Adaptive System
[Timothy Karpouzoglou and Feng Mao]
Chapter 19 Epimetron
[Michel Crucifix]
Biography
Dr. Ginger Levin is a Senior Consultant and Educator in project management. Her specialty areas are portfolio management, program management, the Project Management Office, metrics, and maturity assessments. She is certified as a PMP, PgMP and as an OPM3 Certified Professional. She was the second person in the world to receive the PgMP. As an OPM3 Certified Professional, she has conducted over 25 maturity assessments using the OPM3 Product Suite tool.In addition, Dr. Levin is an Adjunct Professor for the University of Wisconsin-Platteville where she teaches in its M.S. in Project Management Program, for SKEMA (formerly Esc Lille) University, France, and RMIT in Melbourne, Australia in their doctoral programs in project management.In consulting, she has served as Project Manager in numerous efforts for Fortune 500 and public sector clients, including Genentech, Cargill, Abbott Vascular, UPS, Citibank, the Food and Drug Administration, General Electric, SAP, EADS, John Deere, Schreiber Foods, TRW, New York City Transit Authority, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Prior to her work in consulting, she held positions of increasing responsibility with the U.S. Government, including the Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and the General Accounting Office.Dr. Levin is the editor of Program Management: A Life Cycle Approach (2012), author of Interpersonal Skills for Portfolio, Program, and Project Managers , published in 2010. She is the co-author of Program Management Complexity: A Competency Model (2011), Implementing Program Management: Forms and Templates Aligned with the Standard for Program Management Second Edition (2008), Project Portfolio Management, Metrics for Project Management, Achieving Project Management Success with Virtual Teams, Advanced Project Management Office A Com
