Nature, environment and culture in East Asia : the challenge of climate change /

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Nature, Environment and Culture in East Asia. The Challenge of Climate Change explores East Asian cultural variations in approaching and solving environmental challenges in the past, present, and future-important perspectives from cultural studies to the current global environmental and climate cris...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Meinert, Carmen (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Climate and culture ; v. 1.
Temas:
Climatic changes > East Asia.
Climatic changes > Social aspects > East Asia.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > East Asia.
Philosophy of nature > East Asia.
Environmental protection > East Asia.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes > Social aspects.
Ecology.
Environmental protection.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Philosophy of nature.
Social conditions
East Asia > Environmental conditions.
East Asia > Social conditions.
East Asia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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