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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 333–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
...David Fedman Abstract This article examines the emergence in colonial Korea of a command economy for forestry products following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–45). It does so, first, by tracing the policy mechanisms through which the colonial state commandeered forest products...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 February 2022
... for-profit securitization of timberlands could stall environmental degradation and even foster reforestation. If this falls short of our contemporary sustainable forestry ideal, it is still a good deal closer to it than previously recognized. As such, this remarkable book belongs on the shelves and syllabi...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 547–549.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Thomas Lamarre The early emphasis on ideology, on the invented tradition of a Japanese love for forests, is nonetheless a useful strategy. Across four chapters in the second part of the study, “Reforms,” Fedman provides such a detailed account of relations of forestry that readers might easily...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1163–1188.
Published: 01 November 2009
...Julia C. Strauss Abstract How to best maintain public goods under conditions of chronic resource shortage and insufficient state administrative capacity is a challenge for nearly all developing states. This article concentrates on a range of attempted reforms in China's forestry sector in the 1990s...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (4): 597–599.
Published: 01 August 1955
...Charles N. Henning Rehabilitation and Development of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries in South Korea . Report prepared for the United Nations Korean Reconstruction Agency by a Mission selected by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. New York : Columbia University...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 630–631.
Published: 01 August 1989
...William Wayne Farris The Green Archipelago: Forestry in PreindustrialJapan . By Conrad Totman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1989 . xxii , 297 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 630 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (2): 486–487.
Published: 01 May 1998
... and Biological Technology. Part III. Agro-Industries and Forestry. Agro-Industries: Sugarcane Technology. By C H R I S T I A N DANIELS. Forestry. By N I C H O L A S K. M E N Z I E S . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxvii, 740 pp. $150.00. This volume pairs a largish book on sugar cane with a long...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (3): 639–666.
Published: 01 August 2015
...Paul K. Gellert; Andiko Abstract Amid the rapid expansion of oil palm plantations, the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry finds its authority over the forested areas ( kawasan hutan ) under pressure and continues to pursue strategies to legally maintain the areas within its jurisdiction. Combining...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (2): 439–445.
Published: 01 May 2021
... forestry in Germany, the adaptive subsistence strategies of those resisting state incorporation in upland Southeast Asia, and the unique ecological novelty of sedentary grain farming in the earliest Sumerian villages. How could I not have seen these connections at the time? Perhaps it is the zeitgeist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (2): 424–425.
Published: 01 May 2022
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and political reconstruction on the peninsula. In both, the UN promoted the implementation of modern agricultural and resource management practices, directly tying increased domestic farm and forestry productivity to military success. Through the lens of UN development projects, the Korean War, often...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (1): 9–40.
Published: 01 February 2001
.... It was not just the dry weather that was to blame. Villagers in Kumaon set the forest on fire; the dry weather merely helped their efforts along. The containment of this “planned incendiarism” was one of the main planks of the scientific forestry that the colonial state had begun to introduce in the hills...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 700–701.
Published: 01 November 2023
... chapters of the volume cover such important empirical topics as a careful description of China's different multilayered and overlapping training institutions for forestry cadres (chapter 3), Training in China's State Forestry Administration (chapter 4), the ways in which the party-state governs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 801–803.
Published: 01 August 1985
... destruction, some of which are described in this volume, that the profession of forestry came into being. Seemingly there is confusion here between logging and forestry. This is merely a reflection of the common North American failure to distinguish between forest industry and forestry. The editors probably...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 315–318.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Albert L. Park Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 agriculture ecosystems environment forestry Korea nature rural urbanization war From the premodern to the modern period, the Korean peninsula has featured a process of alteration in which people have...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (3): 761–812.
Published: 01 August 2001
... Series. Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann . Blaikie Piers , and Brookfield Harold . 1987 . Land Degradation and Society . London : Methuen . Boomgaard Peter . 1988 . “Forests and Forestry in Colonial Java, 1677–1942.” In Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 319–332.
Published: 01 May 2018
... forestry Imjin War Korean history logging military pine wood resources For Korea, the Imjin War (1592–98) was an unmitigated tragedy. 1 An estimated 20 percent of the population died or was abducted during the conflict. Arable land was reduced to 66 percent of the prewar total. Countless...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 1027–1028.
Published: 01 August 2003
... for Social Development, 2000. xiii, 237 pp. $22.00 (paper). In the 1980s, various programs were instrumental in bringing attention to Philippine uplanders' struggles, but they were largely government led and focused primarily on reforestation and plantation forestry. Issues of ethnic cultural survival, land...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 783–788.
Published: 01 August 2024
... Nôm script, and the romanized quốc ngữ . Chapters 8 and 9 delve into contemporary forestry issues with Larissa Pitts's chapter on Arbor Day in Republican China and the study by Stevan Harrell and coauthors on Nuosu agroforestry in southwestern Sichuan. Pitts tells us about how the Republican...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 988–990.
Published: 01 November 2019
... was disapproved by Madrid and by head engineers of the Inspección General de Montes [Forestry Bureau], who preferred a candidate better trained in forestry and botany. 3 Nonetheless, upon US occupation of Manila, the JBM was recorded to have had trees with medicinal properties growing on its grounds. 4...
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