Overview

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.

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Author:   Yoshinori Yasuda ,  Mark Hudson (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9781138728844

ISBN 10:   1138728845
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   31 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface- Yoshinori Yasuda Chapter 1. Introduction: The Great Wave of the Anthropocene Mark J. Hudson Part I: Natural History and Environmental History: Building Interdisciplinary Frameworks Chapter 2. The Fishes of Shizuoka: A History of Fish- Fauna Research and Some Future Perspectives Kōichi Shibukawa Chapter 3. Lake Varves and Environmental History Kazuyoshi Yamada Chapter 4. The Geological Record of Tsunamis in the Anthropocene Daisuke Sugawara Chapter 5. Stable and Radiocarbon Isotope Measurements to Reconstruct the Diet and Age of Human Skeletal Remains during the Jōmon Period Sōichirō Kusaka Chapter 6. Mount Fuji and Waka Poetry Kazuha Tashiro Chapter 7. Mt. Fuji and the Tokugawa Shogunate Jin Matsushima Part II: Culture, Civilization and the Environment Chapter 8. Biogeography of Pantropical Plants with Sea-Drifted Seeds Kōji Takayama Chapter 9. Fuji Mine Shugyō: An Introduction to Mountain Ascetic Practices on Mount Fuji Yasumasa Ōtaka Part III: Environment and cultures: East/West Chapter 10. Neolithisation: A Perspective from the East Asian Inland Seas Junzō Uchiyama Chapter 11. Global Environmental Justice and the Natural Environment in Japanese Archaeology Mark J. Hudson

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Yoshinori Yasuda is the Director of the Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan, a Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and Professor Emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan. Mark J. Hudson is a researcher in the Eurasia3angle project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, and a Research Associate at the Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon, France.

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