Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
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Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
（A study of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center）（An East gate book）
M.E. Sharpe, c2000
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- : pbk
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアジア専攻
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These essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia.
Table of Contents
- Part I Northwest Voices
- Chapter 1 Focusing the Countryside, Daniel Kemmis
- Chapter 2 The Instability of Stability, Jack Ward Thomas
- Part II Historical Overviews
- Chapter 3 Asian Perceptions of and Behavior Toward the Natural Environment, Rhoads Murphey
- Chapter 4 The New Concepts in Conservation, J. Baird Callicott, Karen G. Mumford
- Chapter 5 Mountain Islands, Desert Seas: Mountains in Environmental History, Dan Flores
- Part III Living a Landscape: Historical and Contemporary Cases
- Chapter 6 Idealizing Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Poetry, Xiaoshan Yang
- Chapter 7 The State Remains, but Mountains and Rivers Are Destroyed, Allan G. Grapard
- Chapter 8 Big Water, Great River: Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia, William L. Lang
- Chapter 9 The Role of Government Intervention in Creating Forest Landscapes and Resource Tenure in Indonesia, Nancy Lee Peluso
- Chapter 10 China's Environment: Resilient Myths and Contradictory Realities, Vaclav Smil
- Part IV Moving Beyond Boundaries
- Chapter 11 Dancing with Devils: Finding a Convergence of Science and Aesthetics in Eastern and Western Approaches to Nature, Alan Graham McQuillan
- Chapter 12 Of Frogs, Old Ponds, and the Sound of Water: Building a Constituency for Environmental Literature in the United States and Japan, Scott Slovic
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