Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history
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Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history
(Palgrave studies in world environmental history)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History
- James Beattie and Ts'ui-jung Liu.- PART I: MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES.- 1. Agriculture, Population and Environment in Late Imperial China
- E. N. Anderson.- 2. Chinese Migrants and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s: A Case Study
- James Beattie.- PART II: WATERSCAPES: DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION AND SOCIETY.- 3. Dike-based Communities between Water and Sand: The Sand-land Environmental System in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s
- Jianxiong Ma.- 4. Waterscape and Social Transformations in Southern Taiwan: The Damming of Mudan Creek
- Shao-hua Liu and Shu-min Huang.- PART III: LANDSCAPE COMMODIFICATION.- 5. The Role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in Redrawing Japanese Attitudes to Landscape
- Thomas Jones.- 6. The Development of Cinchona Cultivation and 'Kina Gaku' in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45
- Ya-wen Ku.- 7. The Energetics of Militarized Landscapes: The Ecology of War in Henan, 1938-50
- Micah S. Muscolino.- PART IV: REACTING TO DEVELOPMENT.- 8. Environmental Non-Government Organizations in China since the 1970s
- Sheng Fei.- 9. Taiwan's Land Use after World War II: An Ecological Modernization Approach
- Hsin-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Shih-Jung Hsu.- 10. Material Fetters and Spiritual Transcendence: Zhuang Zi and Environmental Thought
- Yim-tze Kwong.
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