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The green archipelago : forestry in preindustrial Japan / Conrad Totman ; foreword by James L.A. Webb, Jr.
- Title
- The green archipelago : forestry in preindustrial Japan / Conrad Totman ; foreword by James L.A. Webb, Jr.
- Author
- Totman, Conrad D.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, 1998.
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- Description
- xix, 297 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of intensive exploitation by a dense human population that has always been dependent on wood and other forest products. Mindful that in global terms this has been a rare outcome, and one that bears directly on Japan's recent experience as an affluent, industrial society, Totman examines the causes, forms, and effects of forest use and management in Japan during the millennium to 1870. He focuses mainly on the centuries after 1600 when the Japanese found themselves driven by their own excesses into programs of woodland protection and regenerative forestry.
- Series Statement
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
- Uniform Title
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Note
- Originally published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989. With new pref.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-290) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / James L. A. Webb, Jr. -- Introduction: An Overview of Preindustrial Japanese Forest History -- Pt. 1. A Millennium of Exploitation Forestry. 1. The Ancient Predation, 600-850. 2. Forests and Forestry in Medieval Japan, 1050-1550. 3. Timber Depletion during the Early Modern Predation, 1570-1670 -- Pt. 2. The Emergence of Regenerative Forestry in Early Modern Japan. 4. The Negative Regimen: Forest Regulation. 5. Silviculture: Its Principles and Practice. 6. Plantation Forestry: Economic Aspects of Its Emergence. 7. Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation -- Bibliographical Essay: Scholarship on Preindustrial Japanese Forestry, 1880-1980.
- ISBN
- 0821412358 (paper : alk. paper) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^98022194^
- OCLC
- 39131017
- SCSB-10730357
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library