Book description
This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries.
Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of intensiveā¦
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This book was utterly sui generis when it was published in 1989; with it, Totman singlehandedly created the field of Japanese environmental history.
It also had a huge impact on me personally, showing me how I could combine my interest in environmental issues with my research as a historian. The bookās basic argument is that with such a dense population, Japan today should be an environmental wasteland, but it is instead a beautiful, verdant country thanks to sustainable resource use over many centuries.
Totman focuses specifically on silviculture (forest management) during the Edo period (1600ā1867). Viewed in retrospect, his argumentā¦
From Bruce's list on Japanese environmental history.
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