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Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
- Title
- Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest / Karen K. Gaul and Jackie Hiltz, editors.
- Publication
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxv, 254 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- A study of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center
- Subject
- Human ecology > Asia > Pacific Coast
- Human ecology > Northwest, Pacific
- Landscape changes > Asia > Pacific Coast
- Landscape changes > Northwest, Pacific
- Sustainable development > Asia > Pacific Coast
- Sustainable development > Northwest, Pacific
- Pacific Coast (Asia) > Environmental conditions
- Northwest, Pacific > Environmental conditions
- Note
- "An East gate book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Philip West -- Foreword / Cliff Montagne -- Introduction / Karen K. Gaul ... [et al.] -- pt. 1. Northwest voices. Focusing the countryside / Daniel Kemmis. The instability of stability / Jack Ward Thomas -- pt. 2. Historical views. Asian perceptions of and behavior toward the natural environment / Rhoads Murphey. The new concepts in conservation / J. Baird Callicott and Karen G. Mumford. Mountain islands, desert seas: mountains in environmental history / Dan Flores -- pt. 3. Living a landscape: historical and contemporary cases. Idealizing wilderness in medieval Chinese poetry / Xiaoshan Yang. The state remains, but mountains and rivers are destroyed / Allan G. Grapard. Big water, great river: two ways of seeing the Columbia / William L. Lang. The role of government intervention in creating forest landscapes and resource tenure in Indonesia / Nancy Lee Peluso. China's environment: resilient myths and contradictory realities / Vaclav Smil -- pt. 4. Moving beyond boundaries. Dancing with devils: finding a convergence of science and aesthetics in Eastern and Western approaches to nature / Alan Graham McQuillan. Of frogs, old ponds, and the sound of water: building a constituency for environmental literature in the United States and Japan / Scott Slovic.
- Call Number
- JFE 00-14746
- ISBN
- 0765605112 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0765605120 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 99050049
- OCLC
- 42692057
- Title
- Landscapes and communities on the Pacific Rim : cultural perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest / Karen K. Gaul and Jackie Hiltz, editors.
- Imprint
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2000.
- Series
- A study of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gaul, Karen K., 1961-Hiltz, Jackie.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 00-14746