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Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water, and Air by Micah Muscolino, Ts'ui-jung Liu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This edited volume engages with some of the most dynamic themes in current research on East Asian environmental history, including agricultural science, war and the environment, imperial forestry, oceanic history, and the history of energy. Chapters in this book supply an overview of environmental history as a rapidly expanding field, continuing to generate valuable insights into the mutually constitutive relationship between human societies and the biophysical environment. The book is divided into three parts: Part I consists of three chapters related to land use, while Part II includes five chapters that focus on water, a topic of perennial concern among environmental historians of East Asia, especially as it relates to irrigation, food production, and marine fisheries. Part III consists of two chapters, discussing the impact of new technologies on air quality, in addition to the history of energy in East Asia, which has emerged as an important area of inquiry at the intersection between both environmental history and the history of science and technology. Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water, and Air will appeal to students and scholar

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Author

Micah Muscolino, Ts'ui-jung Liu

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor et Francis Group

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781003081746

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, History