Abstract
Temperate East Asia comprises a major portion of the Earth’s largest continent. The region is bordered by the planet’s highest mountains and largest ocean and its climate and ecosystems are uniquely dominated by the East Asian monsoon. Moreover, East Asia is the homeland of some of the world’s oldest, most populous, most advanced and most rapidly evolving human civilisations. It is therefore not surprising that this region plays a major role in global processes, nor that human activities have powerfully influenced these processes on both regional and planetary scales. The overarching story of the region is of massive human-induced changes in every aspect of the environment and their consequences for natural resources, the global environment, and human welfare. The major conclusion is that the region’s past, present, and future may be understood and predicted only in the context of a comprehensive integrated framework that includes the physical, chemical, biological and human components of the system. Given the central role of the monsoon in the region, such a framework may best be termed the General Monsoon System.
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Fu, C. et al. (2002). Regional-Global Interactions in East Asia. In: Tyson, P., et al. Global-Regional Linkages in the Earth System. Global Change — The IGBP Series (closed). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56228-0_4
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