ISBN:
9781137572301
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (313 p)
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Beattie, James Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia : Perspectives from Environmental History
DDC:
333.70951
Keywords:
Human Geography
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction-Environment, Modernization, and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History -- Part I: Modernization and Development in Comparative Perspectives -- 1 Agriculture, Population, and Environment in Late Imperial China -- 2 A Case Study of Chinese Migration and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s -- Part II: Waterscapes: Development, Modernization, and Society
Abstract:
3 Dike-based Communities between Water and Sand: The Sand-land Environmental System in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s -- 4 Waterscape and Social Transformation in Southern Taiwan: The Damming of Mudan Creek -- Part III: Landscape Commodification -- 5 The Role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in Redrawing Japanese Attitudes to Landscape -- 6 The Development of Cinchona Cultivation and 'Kina Gaku' in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45 -- 7 The Energetics of Militarized Landscapes: The Ecology of War in Henan, 1938-50 -- Part IV: Reactions to Development
Abstract:
8 Environmental Non-Government Organizations in China since the 1970s -- 9 Taiwan's Land Use after World War II: An Ecological Modernization Approach -- 10 Material Fetters and Spiritual Transcendence: Zhuang Zi and Environmental Thought -- Index
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