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Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history /

"Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic...

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Group Author: Liu, Cuirong, 1941- (Editor); Beattie, James, 1977- (Editor)
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire :
Publication Dates: 2016.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Palgrave studies in world enviornmental history
Subjects:
Economic development > Environmental aspects > East Asia > History.
Water resources development > Environmental aspects > East Asia > History.
Land use > Environmental aspects > East Asia > History.
Landscape changes > East Asia > History.
Social change > East Asia > History.
Human ecology > East Asia > History.
East Asia > Environmental conditions > History.
East Asia > Economic conditions.
East Asia > Social conditions.
Summary: "Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan. Through its focus on inter-related material and intellectual aspects of environmental change it also opens up new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East Asia, Europe, and North America. Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia adds significant new perspectives to Chinese, Japanese, and global environmental history, as well as world history and development studies"--Publisher's website.
Carrier Form: xvi, 301 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781137572301 (hardback) :
1137572302 (hardback)
Index Number: GE160
CLC: X21-093.1
Call Number: X21-093.1/E614
Contents: Introduction: Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history / James Beattie and Tsʻui-jung Liu -- Part I. Modernization and development in comparative perspectives -- Agriculture, population and environment in late imperial China / E.N. Anderson -- Chinese migrants and colonial development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s : a case study / James Beattie -- Part II. Waterscapes : development, modernization and society -- Dike-based communities between water and sand : the sand-land environmental system in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s / Jianxiong Ma -- Waterscape and social transformations in southern Taiwan : the damming of Mudan Creek / Shao-hua Liu and Shu-min Huang -- Part III. Landscape commodification -- The role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in redrawing Japanese attitudes to landscape / Thomas jones -- The development of Cinchona cultivation and "Kina Gaku" in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45 / Ya-wen Ku -- The energetics of militarized landscapes : the ecology of war in Henan, 1938-50 / Micah S. Muscolino -- Part IV. Reacting to development -- Environmental non-government organizations in China since the 1970s / Sheng Fei -- Taiwan's land use after World War II : an ecological modernization approach / Hsin-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Shih-Jung Hsu -- Material fetters and spiritual transcendence : Zhuang Zi and environmental thought / Yim-tze Kwong.

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