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The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950

@inproceedings{Muscolino2014TheEO,
  title={The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950},
  author={Micah S. Muscolino},
  year={2014}
}
Introduction 1. A militarized river: the 1938 Yellow River flood and its aftermath 2. Stories of survival: refugee migration and ecological adaptation 3. Military metabolism and the Henan famine of 1942-3 4. Against the flow: hydraulic instability and ecological exhaustion 5. The ecology of displacement: social and environmental effects of refugee migration 6. The land needs the people, the people need the land: beginnings of postconflict recovery 7. Reconstruction and revolution Conclusion. 
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