Environmental history in East Asia : interdisciplinary perspectives /: interdisciplinary perspectives. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tsui-jung Liu.
• Editors: Liu, Cuirong
• Contents: Scientific curiosity in China and Europe : natural history in the late Ming and the eighteenth century / Mark Elvin -- Environmental ethics and aesthetics : the Laozi revisited / Yim-Tze Kwong -- Vision and significance in environmental policy history / Susumu Kitagawa -- The effect of environment on the war between the Song and the Jin states / Jin Liu and Lei Kang -- The retreat of the horses : the Manchus, land reclamation, and local ecology in the Jianghan plain (ca. 1700s-1850s) / Yan Gao -- Problems concerning the environmental history of the Chinese Loess Plateau / Kohei Matsunaga, Dapeng Yue, and Tatsunori Kawasumi -- The Zhaozhou Bazi society in Yunnan : historical process in the Bazi basin environmental system during the Ming period (1368-1643) / Jianxiong Ma -- Lashihai : changing environmental protection of an Alpine lake and wetland / Shu-Min Huang -- Forest landscape change at the Sihmen reservoir catchment (2002-2007) / Chih-Da Wu [and others] -- Limitation and adaptation : environment and technology in Jifu region's rice cultivation during the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) / Xinhao Du and Bo Ren -- Historical knowledge and the response to desertification : a study of agricultural water supply technology in eighteenth-century Northwestern China / Shinobu Iguro -- The aesthetics and politics of Chinese horticulture in late Qing borderlands / Peter Lavelle -- Maize cultivation and its effect on rocky desertification : a spatial study of Guizhou province (1736-1949) / Zhaoqing Han -- Infant mortality and beriberi in Osaka city between the world wars : impact of the mother's diet on infant health / Emilo Higami and Kenichi Tomobe -- Faith healing and vaccination against smallpox in nineteenth-century Japan / Hiroshi Kawaguchi -- Living style diseases : parasite infections and Kaoping region's rural environment / Michael Shiyung Liu -- Ecodemics : facing and mediating the risks from the wild / Mika Merviö -- Beyond uncertainty : industrial hazards and class actions in Taiwan and Japan / Paul Jobin.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 304.2095; Human ecology -- East Asia; Environmental policy -- East Asia; Environmental Policy -- history; Ecology -- history; History, Medieval; History, Early Modern 1451-1600; History, Modern 1601-; HISTORY -- Asia -- General; HISTORY -- Asia -- China; HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan; SCIENCE -- Environmental Science; Ecology; Environmental policy; Human ecology; East Asia -- Environmental conditions; Far East; East Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317974895; 1317974891; 9781315871165; 1315871165; 9781317974901; 1317974905
• Related ISBNs: 9780415717700; 0415717701; 1317974883; 9781317974888
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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