Karen K. Gaul, Jackie Hiltz

Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: From Asia to the Pacific Northwest (eBook, ePUB)

From Asia to the Pacific Northwest

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315500959
• Artikelnr.: 45448753

Autorenporträt

Karen K. Gaul, Jackie Hiltz

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Northwest Voices; Chapter 1 Focusing the Countryside
Daniel Kemmis; Chapter 2 The Instability of Stability
Jack Ward Thomas; Part II Historical Overviews; Chapter 3 Asian Perceptions of and Behavior Toward the Natural Environment
Rhoads Murphey; Chapter 4 The New Concepts in Conservation
J. Baird Callicott
Karen G. Mumford; Chapter 5 Mountain Islands
Desert Seas: Mountains in Environmental History
Dan Flores; Part III Living a Landscape: Historical and Contemporary Cases; Chapter 6 Idealizing Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Poetry
Xiaoshan Yang; Chapter 7 The State Remains
but Mountains and Rivers Are Destroyed
Allan G. Grapard; Chapter 8 Big Water
Great River: Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia
William L. Lang; Chapter 9 The Role of Government Intervention in Creating Forest Landscapes and Resource Tenure in Indonesia
Nancy Lee Peluso; Chapter 10 China's Environment: Resilient Myths and Contradictory Realities
Vaclav Smil; Part IV Moving Beyond Boundaries; Chapter 11 Dancing with Devils: Finding a Convergence of Science and Aesthetics in Eastern and Western Approaches to Nature
Alan Graham McQuillan; Chapter 12 Of Frogs
Old Ponds
and the Sound of Water: Building a Constituency for Environmental Literature in the United States and Japan
Scott Slovic;