Geografie 2025, 130, 299-320
https://doi.org/10.37040/geografie.2025.009
Climate change and migration across the Great Wall of China during the Little Ice Age
Xiaoran Bu1
, Yuran Su1, Lingyu Fan1, Qing Pei1,2, Pi-Ling Pai3, Dongmei Jiang4
, Yuran Su1, Lingyu Fan1, Qing Pei1,2, Pi-Ling Pai3, Dongmei Jiang4
1The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Hong Kong SAR
2The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Chinese History and Culture, Hong Kong SAR
3Academia Sinica, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
4Zhengzhou University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China
Received March 2025
Accepted July 2025
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