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The Green Archipelago: Forestry in PreindustrialJapan
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 630–631.
Published: 01 August 1989
... domain in central Japan, the last stand of virgin timber south of Hokkaido. Fortunately, conditions changed after about 1720. Governments designated forests out-of-bounds and limited the forms and extent of exploitation; but such prohibitions alone would not have reforested Japan. At this time, merchants...
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Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 631–633.
Published: 01 August 1989
... not have reforested Japan. At this time, merchants and peasants began actively to regenerate Japan's woodlands. An extensive literature on silviculture developed, which outlined seedling and slip culture and aftercare for even villagers to understand. Because of the denuded nature ofJapan's virgin forests...
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Clearing, “Wasting,” and Regreening: An Environmental History of Bare Hills in Central Vietnam
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (4): 1037–1058.
Published: 01 November 2018
... people produced this “wasteland” and why, at times, they maintained it despite state efforts at reclamation. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018 2018 bare land environmental history deforestation hills Huế reforestation Vietnam war wasteland A recent article...
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Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 February 2022
... . . . provides new perspectives on the issue of environmental sustainability . . . in some scenarios, strong market demand could also motivate long-term labor and capital input into reforestation” (p. 112). The final two chapters deal with the institutions of the timber trade. Chapter 4 focuses on brokers...
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Sowing War, Reaping Peace: United Nations Resource Development Programs in the Republic of Korea, 1950–1953
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 351–363.
Published: 01 May 2018
... “inexhaustible.” In addition to managing state-run forests, the colonial administration granted leases to individuals who could then claim ownership if they successfully reforested areas affected by overharvesting (especially near population centers), slash-and-burn agriculture, and traditional land-use patterns...
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Wartime Forestry and the “Low Temperature Lifestyle” in Late Colonial Korea, 1937–1945
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Journal of Asian Studies (2018) 77 (2): 333–350.
Published: 01 May 2018
... to foreign observers—when he wrote for readers of Harper's Weekly upon his visit to Korea in 1919 that “One thing, which all tourists notice is the elaborate program of reforestation. The barren and denuded hills of Korea are growing up to a new wealth for the profit of future generations” (Bullard 1919...
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Miraculous Response: Doing Popular Religion in Contemporary China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 542–544.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in part, it seems, by a desire to “leave a name” for himself through religious entrepreneurialism. Under him, the temple has flourished to an unprecedented degree and expanded into other areas of local life, including primary schooling and reforestation projects. Copyright © The Association...
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American Military Government in Korea
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 August 1951
... educational facilities, improving sanitation, restoring transportation and communication, reclaiming arable land, initiating a reforestation program, improving flood control, rehabilitating the fishing industry, and preventing widespread starvation. Despite the inadequate planning and scarcity of trained...
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Forest Policy and Politics in the Philippines: The Dynamics of Participatory Conservation
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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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Faith in Asia's Poor: Ten Paths to Rural Development. Biographies of Ramon Magsaysay Foundation Awardees
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 884–885.
Published: 01 November 1991
... technologies in water and fuel projects in rural Indonesian areas and organized Yayasan Dian Desa (Light of the Village Foundation). Chadi Bhatt is lauded as an environmentalist who organized various reforestation activities in the Indian Himalayas and is credited by RMAF for initiating Chipko Andolan, known...
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Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 501–502.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Western misunderstandings of critical Chinese environmental issues, including reforestation programs and the alleged impending food crisis precipitated by Chinese economic development. A final author romanticizes a Taoist approach to nature as more balanced than Western approaches. Readers may find points...
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Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance In Java
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 221–222.
Published: 01 February 1993
... of manipulations in the allotment of reforestation swidden plots shows just how important tiny increments of power and status in the village world can be. Indeed, Peluso concludes that in Java today the formal process of managing the forests scientifically is actually failing in the face of rampant "informal...
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Korea Today
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1951) 10 (4): 401–403.
Published: 01 August 1951
... in restoring local administration, reestablishing educational facilities, improving sanitation, restoring transportation and communication, reclaiming arable land, initiating a reforestation program, improving flood control, rehabilitating the fishing industry, and preventing widespread starvation. Despite...
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Facets of Power and Its Limitations: Political Culture in Southeast Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (4): 1244–1246.
Published: 01 November 2001
... presented here by Anders Baltzer J0rgensen, Amare Tegaru, and Rune Tjelland have, in general, been discussed before, and Thailand especially has seen a number of works dealing with peripheral communities' (especially in Isaan) reaction to the wildly unpopular government reforestation program. Even so, Rune...
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Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives: Political and Economic Change in a Tohoku Village
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (4): 916–918.
Published: 01 November 1992
... quite high in comparison with most LDCs, with much less class variance, corruption, and other impediments to equitable growth. Nonetheless, development activists might also be interested in Tanohata's experience with such projects as the village's ongoing reforestation program. The village's Economic...
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Depletion of Forest Resources in the Philippines
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (3): 679–681.
Published: 01 August 1989
... important points are made here, including the one the foregoing data concern: the forces involved in deforestation have been at work at least since the Spanish occupation. There is also a useful typology of the different kinds of shifting cultivation systems and a useful summary of recent reforestation...
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Forestry Reform and the Transformation of State Capacity in Fin-de-Siècle China
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Journal of Asian Studies (2009) 68 (4): 1163–1188.
Published: 01 November 2009
... officials clearly participated in the discourse and categories established by higher levels of the state in accepting the reasoning for the new policy and the importance of combating soil erosion through the reforestation of degraded hillsides. They even thought that “returning hilly areas to forest land...
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Tradition and Reform: Land Tenure and Rural Development in South-East Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (3): 906–908.
Published: 01 August 1998
... constantly recognize that land standing alone as a prime good may not form the crux of the problem. Several Southeast Asian dilemmas e.g., reforestation, conservation, ownership, capital may be couched in terms of land. However, the foundations of these problems may be more directly related to kin groups...
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Historical Perspectives on Contemporary East Asia
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Journal of Asian Studies (2001) 60 (2): 502–504.
Published: 01 May 2001
... traces different representations of idealized nature in medieval Chinese poetry. A third author questions Western misunderstandings of critical Chinese environmental issues, including reforestation programs and the alleged impending food crisis precipitated by Chinese economic development. A final author...
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Imperialism and War: Essays on Colonial Wars in Asia and Africa
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 882–884.
Published: 01 November 1991
... is lauded as an environmentalist who organized various reforestation activities in the Indian Himalayas and is credited by RMAF for initiating Chipko Andolan, known in Western circles as the "Hug the Trees Movement." The book also highlights the way Harold Watson, an American Baptist missionary, developed...
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