Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history /: perspectives from environmental history. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tsʻui-jung Liu, James Beattie.
• Editors: Liu, Cuirong, 1941-; Beattie, James, 1977-
• 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 -- A case study of Chinese migrants and colonial development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s / 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 Charles Kwong.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.2095; History; 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; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy; Ecology; Economic development -- Environmental aspects; Economic history; Human ecology; Land use -- Environmental aspects; Landscape changes; Social change; Social conditions; Water resources development -- Environmental aspects; History -- Asia -- General; Science -- Environmental Science; Social Science -- Human Geography; Asian history; The environment; Human geography; World history; Environmental sciences; Human Geography; History -- World; General & world history; East Asia -- Environmental conditions -- History; East Asia -- Economic conditions; East Asia -- Social conditions; East Asia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137572318; 1137572310
• Related ISBNs: 9781137572301
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.