Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia : Changes in the Land, Water and Air (Hardcover)

Part I: Land Use 1. The Tale of Treasure Grass: Sweet Clover’s Introduction and Extension in China, 1942-1961 Guannan Gao and Micah Muscolino 2. Un-Occupied Spaces: Demilitarization and Land Use in the Kanto Plain Adam Tompkins 3. Development and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Forestry: Representation of Taiwanese and Korean Vegetation Change in the Japanese Empire Taisaku Komei Part II: Cropping and Fishing 4. Irrigation and Sequence in Agricultural Time in Shanxi since the Ming Dynasty Chi-Ying Chang 5. The Importance of Local Customs to Fisheries in Early Modern Japanese Fishing Villages Shingo Nakamura 6. Rationalizing the Ocean: Low-Level Radiation and Salmon Farming in the North Pacific Kayo Nishi 7. Vibrant Matter(s), Fish and Fishing Histories in North Korea Robert Winstanley-Chesters 8. The EU Food Reference Laboratory and Its Lessons for Taiwan and China Der-Chin Horng Part III: Air Quality and Environmental Risk 9. Lessons from the Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex of Mai-Liao, Taiwan: Environmental Disputes and Health Risks Hurng-jyuhn Wang 10. Energy-Saving Practices and Emission Reduction in Coastal Southeast China and Taiwan Ts’ui-jung Liu