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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 319–331.
Published: 01 May 2011
...So Young Kim Abstract Climate change has become a focal point in recent environmental debates and policymaking. Latest polls show rising consensus among the global public on the urgency of the problem. Home to the fastest growing economies as well as to four of the ten largest greenhouse gas...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1001–1004.
Published: 01 November 2014
... and breadth of vision, between insider understanding and outsider insight, affect everything from our ability to perceive an approaching financial crisis to the way we develop our cities, educate our children, or understand how the biggest challenge to humanity—climate change—changes the future and our...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 929–955.
Published: 01 November 2016
... oppression. The deep and abiding theme of many works is anthropogenic environmental damage, now boldly and directly addressed in The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2016). Married to accomplished fellow author Deborah Baker, whose work traces the Asian peregrinations of Allen Ginsberg...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 457–480.
Published: 01 May 2017
...Alāna M. Wilson; Sierra Gladfelter; Mark W. Williams; Sonika Shahi; Prashant Baral; Richard Armstrong; Adina Racoviteanu Abstract Asia, a region grappling with the impacts of climate change, increasing natural disasters, and transboundary water issues, faces major challenges to water security...
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in Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Support for Climate Policies in Asia: Evidence from Recent Polls
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2011
Figure 1. Cross-regional public support for the need for climate change actions (BBC World Service Poll, 2007)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
... as a geological force and to underscore the rapidly escalating impacts of human behaviors on the planet—sufficient, many have argued, to launch a new geological age. While geologists and environmentalists continue to debate the validity of Anthropocene as a formal designation, climate change; mass extinctions...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 975–987.
Published: 01 November 2014
... documentary on climate change. Facebook, Twitter, and chats excitedly shared news of the upcoming global release of a film seeking to unite the globe in a social movement to stop climate change. Software engineers and social justice activists might, it seemed, be able to come together on this topic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 5–18.
Published: 01 February 2024
...Pasuk Phongpaichit Abstract This keynote address offers an overview of Asia in an increasingly fragile world. Climate change is making the monsoon more erratic, bringing more drought and more flood, signaled by the devastating flood of Pakistan in August 2022. Extreme weather and rising sea levels...
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in Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Support for Climate Policies in Asia: Evidence from Recent Polls
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2011
Figure 2. Cross-regional public endorsement of energy policies to address climate change (BBC World Service Poll, 2006)
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 401–407.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of Minnesota Press . Freeman Charles , and Michael Green . 2010 . Asia's Response to Climate Change and Natural Disasters: Implications for an Evolving Regional Architecture . Washington, D.C. : Center...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 499–503.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of disciplinary boundaries is necessary as Asian studies continues to exist in the Anthropocene. Scholarly analyses of Asia as such, and discussions of climate change, among other issues, should not continue to exist as if in parallel universes (Hilton 2014 ). Wilson et al. address the issue of scale, though...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 1005–1007.
Published: 01 November 2014
... regulations and the government's complicity in the displacement of indigenous peoples. Indeed, Southeast Asia as a whole is one of the regions of the world that will bear some of the most significant damage from climate change. A 2010 report by the World Bank concludes that “Vietnam is likely to be one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 837–848.
Published: 01 November 2019
.... 1930–50 ( New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2005 ) . 18 Ghosh, Great Derangement , ibid. , 87, 111. 17
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, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 ) . Ghosh's book was itself the subject...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2011) 70 (2): 315–318.
Published: 01 May 2011
... with four short pieces on contemporary issues. The first one encompasses the region as a whole, tackling an issue of planetary scope: climate change. The other three are a trio of interconnected works that have a much tighter focus, zeroing in on one country in the northeast corner of the continent, North...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 963–974.
Published: 01 November 2014
... the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to the U.S. military. 2 And as has happened throughout history, there are also invariably those who completely reject the gospel, just as many dismiss the virgin birth and many others dismiss Darwinian evolution. Many scholars, however, take the Anthropocene very...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 212–216.
Published: 01 February 2024
... essays, offer us an abundance of insight into the nature of our changing world and share a call to view humans as part of but not at the center of it. Chakrabarty's Climate of History rests upon a fissure between the global and the planetary. The globe, as he delineates it, is the globe...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 396–398.
Published: 01 May 2022
... chapters, and a conclusion written by John Grim, a leading scholar of religion and ecology in the Americas. The chapters are divided into four parts, corresponding to the themes of interspecies relations, water, climate change, and the notion of “commoning”—that is, the way Himalayan communities understand...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1986) 45 (2): 223–244.
Published: 01 February 1986
.... ” Journal of Asian Studies AA , no. 2 : 271 – 292 . Struve Lynn A. 1984 . The Southern Ming, 1644–1662 . New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press . Su-chou fu-chih [Gazetteer of Su-chou Prefecture]. 1824. Takahashi K. , and Yoshino M. . 1978 . Climatic Change and Food...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 83–113.
Published: 01 February 2002
.... Martin's Press . American Geophysical Union . 1992 . Volcanism and Climate Change . Washington, D.C. : American Geophysical Union . Arakawa Hidetoshi . 1957 . “ Three Great Famines in Japan .” Weather 12 ( 7 ): 211 –17. Arakawa Hidetoshi . 1967 . Kikin no rekishi (A history...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 751–753.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of this is that Moore argues in chapter 3 that China contributed modestly to climate change mitigation by largely meeting growing power demand in the last two decades with new renewable generation capacity (e.g., hydro, wind, and solar power). However, he fails to mention that China invested equally in as much coal...
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