{"product_id":"handbook-of-environmental-history-in-japan-9789048559893","title":"Handbook of Environmental History in Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJapan: a land plagued by volcanoes, earthquakes and typhoons, yet blessed with a climate suitable for all manner of agriculture and forestry, and positioned where ocean currents collide and bring an abundance of the ocean’s resources to its people; a country which moved quickly from an agrarian pre-industrial society to become one of the world’s great economic powerhouses in only a few decades, spoiling water, air and land in the process, bringing misery to many of its people; a country with expansionist desires, colonizing neighboring lands, leading to war, defeat, destruction and, for the first time in history, nuclear devastation and its aftermath; a land and its people which share a remarkable resilience and ability to evaluate and correct their mistakes and renew their trajectory towards a better future. \u003cbr\u003eThe sixteen chapters of the \u003ccite\u003eHandbook of Environmental History in Japan\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Perspectives of Environmental History in Japan (Fujihara Tatsushi) \u003cbr\u003ePart 1: Topology of Environmental History \u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Cultural Landscapes in Japan (Uesugi Kazuhiro) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Japan’s Colonial Environments (John Hayashi) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: National Parks, Nature Conservation, War: The Development of the National Parks System in Japan, 1907-1945 (Nishimura Takahiro) \u003cbr\u003ePart 2: Pollution Incidents\/Disasters \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: The Ashio Affair: The Emergence of Industrial Pollution as a Social, Political and Environmental Issue in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cyrian Pitteloud) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Two Outbreaks of Minamata Disease and the Struggle for Human Rights (Seki Reiko) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Black Rain, Lawsuits and Compensation: Radiation in the Environment and Human Exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Nakao Maika) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Environmental Problems Caused by the Shinkansen in Nagoya City (Aoki Soko) \u003cbr\u003ePart 3: Between Nature and Humans \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: The Epidemiological Landscape and Medical Theories: Focusing on a History of Smallpox in Early Modern Japan (Kozai Toyoko) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Between Nature and Human: The History of the Use of “Night Soil” in Japan (Yuzawa Noriko) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Agricultural Technology and the Environment in Modern Japan (Fujihara Tatsushi) \u003cbr\u003ePart 4: Seas, Lakes and Shores \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Regional Environmental History: The Lake Biwa Area (Hashimoto Michinori) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Tokyo Bay in the 20th Century: Life, Production and Environment (Kobori Satoru) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Tuna Fisheries and Thermonuclear Tests, 1954-1963 (Yuka Moriguchi Tsuchiya) \u003cbr\u003ePart 5: Forestry \u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Japanese Swidden Agriculture: Environmental History of Grasslands, Forests and Fire (Komeie Taisaku) \u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: A History of Tree Planting in Modern Japan: Resource Utilization and Environment Conservation (Takemoto Taro); Chapter 16: Empire Forestry Endures: The Development and Continuity of Japanese Forestry in Southeast Asia, 1930-1970 (Nakashima Koji)","brand":"Amsterdam University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49427439354199,"sku":"9789048559893","price":171.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/handbook-of-environmental-history-in-japan-9789048559893","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}