Main Title |
Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
M.E. Sharpe, |
Year Published |
2000 |
OCLC Number |
42692057 |
ISBN |
0765605112 (cloth : acid-free paper) 0765605120 (pbk.) |
Subjects |
Human ecology--Asia--Pacific Coast ;
Human ecology--Northwest, Pacific ;
Landscape changes--Asia--Pacific Coast ;
Landscape changes--Northwest, Pacific ;
Sustainable development--Asia--Pacific Coast ;
Sustainable development--Northwest, Pacific ;
Pacific Coast (Asia)--Environmental conditions ;
Northwest, Pacific--Environmental conditions
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
ERAM |
GF651.L36 2000 |
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Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA |
06/15/2005 |
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Collation |
xxv, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Notes |
"An East gate book." Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents Notes |
Preface / Philip West -- Foreword / Cliff Montagne -- Introduction / Karen K. Gaul ... {et al.} -- pt. 1. Northwest voices. Focusing the countryside / Daniel Kemmis. The instability of stability / Jack Ward Thomas -- pt. 2. Historical views. Asian perceptions of and behavior toward the natural environment / Rhoads Murphey. The new concepts in conservation / J. Baird Callicott and Karen G. Mumford. Mountain islands, desert seas: mountains in environmental history / Dan Flores -- pt. 3. Living a landscape: historical and contemporary cases. Idealizing wilderness in medieval Chinese poetry / Xiaoshan Yang. The state remains, but mountains and rivers are destroyed / Allan G. Grapard. Big water, great river: two ways of seeing the Columbia / William L. Lang. The role of government intervention in creating forest landscapes and resource tenure in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso. China's environment: resilient myths and contradictory realities / Vaclav Smil -- pt. 4. Moving beyond boundaries. Dancing with devils: finding a convergence of science and aesthetics in Eastern and Western approaches to nature / Alan Graham McQuillan. Of frogs, old ponds, and the sound of water: building a constituency for environmental literature in the United States and Japan / Scott Slovic. |