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Title Multidisciplinary studies of the environment and civilization : Japanese perspectives / edited by Yoshinori Yasuda and Mark J. Hudson
Edition First edition
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series Routledge Studies on Asia and the Anthropocene
Routledge studies on Asia and the Anthropocene.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface: introduction to the series; 1 Introduction: the great wave of the Anthropocene; Part I Natural environments: from records to representation; 2 The fishes of Shizuoka: a history of fish-fauna research and some future perspectives; 3 Lake varves and environmental history; 4 The geological record of tsunamis in the Anthropocene; 5 Stable and radiocarbon isotope measurements to reconstruct the diet and age of human skeletal remains during the Jōmon period; 6 Mount Fuji and waka poetry
7 Mount Fuji and the Tokugawa shogunatePart II Movements in nature and culture; 8 Biogeography of pantropical plants with sea-drifted seeds; 9 Fuji mine shugyō: an introduction to mountain ascetic practices on Mount Fuji; Part III Environment and cultures: east/west; 10 Neolithization: a perspective from the East Asian Inland Seas; 11 Global environmental justice and the natural environment in Japanese archaeology; Index
Summary "Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond. The contributions throughout this volume build and promote frameworks for an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability both in and beyond Japan. Utilizing research efforts from a broad range of fields such as zoology, biological anthropology and archaeology, these multidisciplinary studies are brought together to assess the impacts humans have had on the environment as well as the role of civilization, culture and heritage in environmental history. This book provides a truly multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues and will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in fields such as climate, geology, plant taxonomy and marine science as well as those with an interest in Japanese history, archaeology, art and literature."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Human ecology -- Japan -- History
Natural history -- Japan
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Japan
Environmental justice -- Japan
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
Environmental justice
Human ecology
Human remains (Archaeology)
Natural history
Japan
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Yasuda, Yoshinori, 1946- editor.
Hudson, Mark, 1963- editor.
ISBN 9781315190273
1315190273