Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest Book

Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest, As we face the environmental challenges of an increasingly connected global world, an appreciation and understanding of various cultural perspectives on the environment is essential. In Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspective, Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest

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Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest
Written by author Karen K. Gaul
Published by East Gate Book, May 2000
As we face the environmental challenges of an increasingly connected "global world," an appreciation and understanding of various cultural perspectives on the environment is essential. In Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspective
Gathered at a 1995 symposium in Missoula, 17 scholars, overwhelmingly American, and from a variety of disciplines linkable to environmental concerns, reveal East-West differences such as the American West's emphasis on nature as wilderness, an emphasis no

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Preface
Foreword
Introduction
Pt. I Northwest Voices
1 Focusing the Countryside 3
2 The Instability of Stability 20
Pt. II Historical Overviews
3 Asian Perceptions of and Behavior Toward the Natural Environment 35
4 The New Concepts in Conservation 58
5 Mountain Islands, Desert Seas: Mountains in Environmental History 75
Pt. III Living a Landscape: Historical and Contemporary Cases
6 Idealizing Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Poetry 91
7 The State Remains, but Mountains and Rivers Are Destroyed 108
8 Big Water, Great River: Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia 130
9 The Role of Government Intervention in Creating Forest Landscapes and Resource Tenure in Indonesia 147
10 China's Environment: Resilient Myths and Contradictory Realities 167
Pt. IV Moving Beyond Boundaries
11 Dancing with Devils: Finding a Convergence of Science and Aesthetics in Eastern and Western Approaches to Nature 185
12 Of Frogs, Old Ponds and the Sound of Water: Building a Constituency for Environmental Literature in the United States and Japan 219
Contributors 241
Index 247

Title: Landscapes and Communities on the Pacific Rim: Cultural Perspectives from Asia to the Pacific Northwest

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Publication Date: May 2000

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

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Heigh : 8.900 cm (3.50 inches)

Depth: 0.700 cm (0.28 inches)

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	Preface
	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. I	Northwest Voices
1	Focusing the Countryside	3
2	The Instability of Stability	20
Pt. II	Historical Overviews
3	Asian Perceptions of and Behavior Toward the Natural Environment	35
4	The New Concepts in Conservation	58
5	Mountain Islands, Desert Seas: Mountains in Environmental History	75
Pt. III	Living a Landscape: Historical and Contemporary Cases
6	Idealizing Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Poetry	91
7	The State Remains, but Mountains and Rivers Are Destroyed	108
8	Big Water, Great River: Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia	130
9	The Role of Government Intervention in Creating Forest Landscapes and Resource Tenure in Indonesia	147
10	China's Environment: Resilient Myths and Contradictory Realities	167
Pt. IV	Moving Beyond Boundaries
11	Dancing with Devils: Finding a Convergence of Science and Aesthetics in Eastern and Western Approaches to Nature	185
12	Of Frogs, Old Ponds and the Sound of Water: Building a Constituency for Environmental Literature in the United States and Japan	219
	Contributors	241
	Index	247