Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: From Asia to the Pacific Northwest - From Asia to the Pacific Northwest

Moving beyond traditional cultural and disciplinary boundaries, social scientists, humanists, natural scientists, and public servants examine the different ways in which people understand and inhabit their environments in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and throughout Asia. Utilizing ethnographic and historical case studies; textual, cartographic, and narrative analysis; and critical examinations of discourse and methods, these essays broaden our understanding of human/environmental interactions, and prompt more realistic assessments and effective action.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Karen K. Gaul, Jackie Hiltz

Product details

• Authors: Karen K. Gaul, Gaul Karen K., Jackie Hiltz, Hiltz Jackie
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2000
• EAN: 9780765605115
• ISBN: 978-0-7656-0511-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 453 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; NATURE / Ecology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Social groups, Regional Studies, Social impact of environmental issues, Regional / International studies, Pacific Ocean, Australasia, Oceania, Pacific Islands, Atlantic Islands, Australasia, Oceania & other land areas, Social groups, communities and identities