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Nature, environment and culture in East Asia : the challenge of climate change
- Title
- Nature, environment and culture in East Asia : the challenge of climate change / edited by Carmen Meinert.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Meinert, Carmen.
- Description
- xxi, 443 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Climate and culture, 2213-0519 ; volume 1
- Uniform Title
- Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
- Subjects
- Nature > Effect of human beings on
- Philosophy of nature
- Religion and Science
- Ecology
- Climatic changes > Social aspects > East Asia
- Nature > Effect of human beings on > East Asia
- East Asia > Environmental conditions
- Culture
- Philosophy of nature > East Asia
- Environmental protection > East Asia
- Social conditions
- Climate Change
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Climatic changes > East Asia
- Religious Philosophies
- East Asia > Social conditions
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-426) and index.
- Contents
- IDEAS -- Chinese "Unity of Man and Nature" : Reality or Myth? / Heiner Roetz -- Ideas in Daoism Relative to Ecology and the Environment / Paul Jackson -- Environmental Concern : Can Humans Avoid Being Partial? : Epistemological Awareness in the Zhuangzi / Karyn Lai -- Of Eco-Buddhas and Dharma-Roots : Views from the East Asian Buddhist Tradition / Henrik H. Sorensen -- PAST -- A Retrospection of Climate Changes and their Impacts in Chinese History / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Manipulating the Yellow River and the State Formation of theNorthern Song Dynasty / Ling Zhang -- PRESENT -- Water Diversion Between Official Rhetoric and the Drive to Dominate Nature / Miriam Seeger -- Chinese Environmental Movements : Civil Society Discourses on Climate Change and Environmental Protection / Nora Sausmikat -- "From Worse to Better" : Anti-Desertification Policies on the Tibetan Plateau in the Past Decades / Carmen Meinert & Christian Gudehus -- From Ascetic to Activist : Jiyul Sunim's Korean Buddhist Eco movement / Eunsu Cho -- PROSPECTS -- Killing Three Birds with One Stone : Possibilities of Achieving Environmental Success in Conforming Societies : What Japanese Experiences May Suggest to China / Takashi Kanatsu -- Environmental Think Tanks in Japan and South Korea : Trailblazers or Vicarious Agents? / Alexander Ruser -- Energy and Climate Change in China / Carlo Carraro & Emanuele Massetti -- List of Names and Subjects in Non-Latin Scripts -- Contributing Authors.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4023
- ISBN
- 9789004230682
- 9004230688
- 9789004253049 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013014284
- OCLC
- 841212400
- Title
- Nature, environment and culture in East Asia : the challenge of climate change / edited by Carmen Meinert.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Climate and culture, 2213-0519 ; volume 1Climate and culture (Leiden, Netherlands) ; v. 1.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-426) and index.
- Added Author
- Meinert, Carmen.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4023