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Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim : tensions and values

Title: Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim : tensions and values / edited by Harold Coward ; with a foreword by Maurice Strong.
Publication: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

Coward, Harold G.

Description

viii, 260 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The most vigorously developing economies and largest markets today are located on the Pacific Rim, suggesting that the economic "center of gravity" is shifting from the shores of the North Atlantic. Yet the Pacific Rim is also the location of much of the earth's natural beauty as well as the home of still-thriving traditional aboriginal societies. The Pacific Basin's environmental assets and its aboriginal peoples are confronted by the forces of development.
The resulting tension between traditional and modern approaches to the environment are addressed in this book by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, social scientists, and humanists.

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Contents

Pt. I. Tensions Between Traditions and Modern Development. Roots and Values Inherent in Modern Development / Ivan Head. The Pacific after Rio: Population, Consumption, and the Environment / Arthur Hanson. Modern Communications and Opportunities for Pro-Environmental Networking in East Asia / Jan Walls -- Pt. II. Belief Systems, Institutions, and the Environment. Traditional and Modern Institutions and the Commons / Elizabeth A. Wilman and R. Douglas Burch. Ecofeminism, Religion, Gender, Hierarchy, and Environment / Rosemary Radford Reuther. Pacific North American First Peoples and the Environment / Nancy Turner and Richard Atleo. Mountains, Water, Wood, and Fish: Chinese and Japanese Perspectives on Nature and Ecology / Jan Walls and Masao Kunihiro. Immigration, Environment, and Public Policy in Australia / Fazal Rizvi -- Pt. III. Reconciling Traditional and Modern Approaches. Forest Management in British Columbia: The Transition to Sustainability / Stephen Owen and David Greer.
Water in the Columbia River Basin: From a Source of Permanence to an Instrument for Economic Growth / David H. Getches. Changed Land, Changed Lives: Energy and the Aborigines in the Russian Pacific / Vassily I. Sokolov. Social Values and Development Patterns in South China: The Case of the Pearl River Delta Region in the 1900s / Graham E. Johnson and Yuen-fong Woon.

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98009800

OCLC

ocm38438432

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries