Ts'ui-jung Liu

Micah Muscolino

This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy. Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental history as a rapidly expanding field, continuing to generate valuable insights into the mutually constitutive relationship between human societies and the biophysical environment. The book is divided into three parts: Part I consists of three chapters related to land use, while Part II includes five chapters that focus on water, a topic of perennial concern among environmental historians of East Asia, especially as it relates to irrigation, food production, and marine fisheries. Part III consists of two chapters, discussing the impact of new technologies on air quality, in addition to the history of energy in East Asia, which has emerged as an important area of inquiry at the intersection between both environmental history and the history of science and technology. Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water, and Air will appeal to students and scholars of East Asian studies, environmental history, and environmental sciences.

Changes in the Land, Water and Air

Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia

Cuirong Liu

Andrea Janku

David Allen Pietz

Borders and mosaics, East and West : landscape organization in environmental history / J. Donald Hughes -- Writing the twentieth-century history of water on the north China plain / David Pietz -- Land use change in a mountainous area during the last 300 years from the perspective of the spatial evolution of settlements : the case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China / Renlong Huo -- Taming the black snake : flooding disasters and river regulation of the Zengwen River in colonial Taiwan / Ya-wen Ku -- Transformation through inundation : riziculturing Muslim identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan / David A. Bello -- The role of plant factories in food production and technology in Japan / Kaihei Koshio -- Eco-city development in Japan / Kentarou Inoue -- Ecological construction in coastal southeast China / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Building the sustainable city of Yilan : the development of environmental governance learning capacity / Huang-Jyuhn Wang and He-Liang Huang -- Nature worship and the environment in Song China / Jin Liu and Lei Kang -- The mountain spirits and lake monsters of Xinjiang Province during the Qing Dynasty / Chuanfei Liu

Perspectives from Environmental History

Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia

James Beattie

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.

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia

Mark Elvin

This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China.

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