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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (3): 867–869.
Published: 01 August 1997
...Raymond L. Bryant Counting the Costs: Economic Growth and Environmental Change in Thailand . Edited by Jonathan Rigg . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1995 . xxi, 267 pp. $36.50 (paper) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 700–701.
Published: 01 November 2023
...Julia C. Strauss Linking Theory with Practice? Cadre Training and Environmental Governance in China . By Julia Marinaccio . Munich : Oekom . 174 pp. ISBN: 9783962383299 . © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 The ground thus neatly laid for what is to come, the empirical...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 639–662.
Published: 01 November 2023
... Asia. [email protected] © 2023 Association for Asian Studies 2023 environmental change settler society malaria eradication Nepal Tarai The sweltering noonday heat of a Tarai summer hangs heavily on the body. It is all one can do to raise a hand to flick away a fly. By evening...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (2): 416–418.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Kyle A. Jaros The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China . By Iza Ding . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2022 . xi, 245 pp. ISBN: 9781501760372 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 This is a study of contemporary China's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 1071–1072.
Published: 01 August 1975
...M. S. A. Rao Village Life in South India: Cultural Design and Environmental Variation . By Alan R. Beals . Chicago : Aldine Publishing Company , 1974 . 183 pp. Tables, Maps, Photographs, Index. $7.50 (cloth), $2.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2013) 72 (4): 1024–1025.
Published: 01 November 2013
...Jordan Baskerville The Ordination of a Tree: The Thai Buddhist Environmental Movement . By Susan M. Darlington . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2012 . xvii, 302 pp. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (4): 989–1000.
Published: 01 November 2014
... . The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination . Malden, Mass .: Blackwell Publishers . Ch'oe Sŭngja . 1984a . “ Kyŏul e pada e kassŏtta ” [Went to the sea in winter]. In Chŭlgŏun ilgi: Ch'oe Sŭngja sijip [Joyful diary: Collection of poetry by Ch'oe Sŭngja...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 220–221.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Gregory Smits Japan at Nature's Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power . Edited by Ian Jared Miller , Julia Adeney Thomas , and Brett L. Walker . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . xiv, 322 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Nimrod Baranovitch Abstract Much has been written in recent years about the environmental degradation in China's ethnic minority regions and the impact that this degradation and the policies that have been implemented to combat it have had on minority populations. To date, however, the research has...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (1): 221–223.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Matthew Van Duyn Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China . By Michael Hathaway . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2013 . xi, 258 pp. ISBN 9780520276208 (paper; also available in cloth and as e-book). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 222–225.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Aike P. Rots A World Otherwise: Environmental Praxis in Minamata . By Yuki Miyamoto . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2021 . xvi, 167 pp. ISBN: 9781793643605 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 Minamata is a coastal town in Kumamoto Prefecture...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 762–764.
Published: 01 August 2021
...Andrew de la Garza Climate of Conquest: War, Environment, and Empire in Mughal North India . By Pratyay Nath . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2019 . xli, 325 pp. ISBN: 9780199495559 (cloth). Water and the Environmental History of Modern India . By Velayutham Saravanan...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 170–172.
Published: 01 February 2021
...Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Mongolian Buddhism at a Time of Environmental Disarray . By Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 2019 . xiv, 234 pp. ISBN: 9781501737640 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... explorers noted eroded slopes in 1877, and imperial land surveyors described stretches of “idle, fallow land” decades earlier. This article describes a longer history of a “wasteland” not only to challenge a presentist framing of environmental decline but also to recognize the historic roles people played...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2017) 76 (2): 529–535.
Published: 01 May 2017
... University Press , 2015 . 336 pp. ISBN: 9781107004184 (cloth, also available in paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Over fifteen years ago in late 2000, I completed an introduction and annotated bibliography focused on environmental history for Henry Smith's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2014) 73 (3): 795–796.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Stephen L. Field Five Classics of Fengshui: Chinese Spiritual Geography in Historical and Environmental Perspective . By Michael John Paton . Leiden : Brill , 2013 . xx, 422 pp. $177.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014  2014 Paton's attempt...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 329–351.
Published: 01 May 2001
... of peasants from Hachinohe died when an intensification of slash-and-burn farming, fueled by economic growth during the Tokugawa period (1600–1868), combined with terrestrial and climatological environmental changes and converged on this small northeastern domain. This convergence disrupted local agricultural...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1123–1124.
Published: 01 November 2001
...Arun Agrawal Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives . Edited by Roy Ellen , Peter Parkes , and Alan Bicker . Reading, UK : Harwood Academic Publishers , xii, 356 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (1): 179–180.
Published: 01 February 1994
...James Reardon-Anderson China's Environmental Crisis: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development . By Vaclav Smil . An East Gate Book. Armonk, N.Y., and London : M. E. Sharpe , 1993 . xix, 257 pp. $42.50 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). Megaproject: A Case Study of China's Three...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (4): 1212–1213.
Published: 01 November 1994
... this highly readable descriptive study. YANA VAN DER MEULEN RODGERS College of William and Mary Asia's Environmental Crisis. Edited by MICHAEL C. H O W A R D . Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1993- ix, 293 pp. This volume consists of a series of case studies on environmental problems in East, Southeast...