Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 787 g
Reihe: Academia Sinica on East Asia
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 787 g
Reihe: Academia Sinica on East Asia
ISBN: 978-0-415-71770-0
Verlag: Routledge
As environmental history has developed as growing sub-discipline within the study of history, great emphasis has been placed on the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach. Indeed, as Environmental History in East Asia shows, by drawing on research and methodologies from the fields of science, technology, geography, geology and ecology, we are able to develop a much richer understanding of a region’s history.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of environmental history in East Asia, ranging temporally from the Ming dynasty to the 21st Century and spatially across China, Japan and Taiwan. Split into four parts, the chapters cover a wide range of fascinating topics, comparing environmental thought and policy in the East and West, the transformation of the landscape, land resource utilization and impact of agriculture and disasters and diseases across the region. A diverse selection of case studies are used to illustrate the chapters, including the role of Daoism, Qing pasturelands and 21st century swine flu.
Truly interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of Asian environmentalism, environmental history, Asian anthropology, Asian development studies and Asian history more generally.
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Introduction, Ts'ui-jung Liu Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy 1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe, Mark Elvin 2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics, Yim-tze Kwong 3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History, Susumu Kitagawa Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources 4. The Effect of the Environment on the War Between Song and Jin Dynasties, Jin Liu and Lei Kang 5. The Environment and Technology in Rice Cultivation in Jifu Region During Ming and Qing Dynasties, Xin-hao Du and Bo Ren 6. The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain, Yan Gao 7. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification, Shinobu Iguro 8. A Few Problems in the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Kohei Matsunaga 9. The Aesthetics of Politics of Chinese Horticulture Along Late Qing Frontiers, Peter Lavelle 10. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification, Zhaoqing Han 11. Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System, Jianxiong Ma 12. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland, Shu-min Huang 13. Forest Landscape Change at Shimen Resevoir Catchment, Chih-Da Wu, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Yung-Chung Chuang an Jihn-Fa Jan Part III Diseases and Disasters 14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City Between the World Wars, Emiko Higami and Kenichi Tomobe 15. From Faith Healing Practice to Jennerian Vaccination Against Smallpox in Nineteenth Century Japan, Hiroshi Kawaguchi 16. Parasite Diseases and the Rural Environment in the Kaoping Valley, Michael Shiyun Liu 17. Ecodemics, Mika Mervio 18 Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan, Paul Jobin
