Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History (Hardcover)

Introduction, Ts’ui-jung Liu, Andrea Janku and David Pietz

Part I: Landscape Organization

1. Borders and Mosaics, East and West: Landscape Organization in Environmental History, J. Donald Hughes

Part II: Managing the Rivers

2. Writing the Twentieth-Century History of Water on the North China Plain, David Pietz

3. Land Use Change in a Mountainous Area During the Last 300 Years from the Perspective of Spatial Evolution of Settlements: The Case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China, Renlong Huo

4. Taming the Black Snake: Flooding Disasters and River Regulation of the Zengwen River in Colonial Taiwan, Ya-wen Ku

Part III: Land Use and Food Production

5. Transformation Through Inundation: Riziculturing Muslim Identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan, David A. Bello

6. The Role of Plant Factory on Food Production and Technology in Japan, Kaihei Koshio

Part IV: Development of Eco-cities

7. Eco-city Development in Japan, Kentarou Inoue

8. Ecological Constructions in Coastal Southeast China, Ts’ui-jung Liu

9. Building the Sustainable City of Yilan: The Development of Environmental Governance Learning Capacity, Huang-Jyuhn Wang and He-Liang Huang

Part V: Folk Belief and Environment

10. Natural Worship and the Environment in Song China, Jin Liu and Lei Kang

11. The Mountain Spirits and Lake Monsters of Xinjiang Province During the Qing Dynasty, Chuanfei Liu