Environmental history in East Asia [electronic resource] : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Ts'ui-jung Liu.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Scientific curiosity in China and Europe : natural history in the late Ming and the eighteenth century / Mark Elvin -- 2. Environmental ethics and aesthetics : the Laozi revisited / Yim-Tze Kwong -- 3. Vision and significance in environmental policy history / Susumu Kitagawa -- 4. The effect of environment on the war between the Song and the Jin states / Jin Liu and Lei Kang -- 5. The retreat of the horses : the Manchus, land reclamation, and local ecology in the Jianghan plain (ca. 1700s-1850s) / Yan Gao -- 6. Problems concerning the environmental history of the Chinese Loess Plateau / Kohei Matsunaga, Dapeng Yue, and Tatsunori Kawasumi -- 7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan : historical process in the Bazi Basin environmental system during the Ming period (1368-1643) / Jianxiong Ma -- 8. Lashihai : changing environmental protection of an Alpine lake and wetland / Shu-Min Huang -- 9. Forest landscape change at the Sihmen reservoir catchment (2002-2007) / Chih-Da Wu ... [et al.] -- 10. Limitation and adaptation : environment and technology in Jifu region's rice cultivation during the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) / Xinhao Du and Bo Ren -- 11. Historical knowledge and the response to desertification : a study of agricultural water supply technology in eighteenth-century Northwestern China / Shinobu Iguro -- 12. The aesthetics and politics of Chinese horticulture in late Qing borderlands / Peter Lavelle -- 13. Maize cultivation and its effect on rocky desertification : a spatial study of Guizhou province (1736-1949) / Zhaoqing Han -- 14. Infant mortality and beriberi in Osaka city between the world wars : impact of the mother's diet on infant health / Emiko Higami and Kenichi Tomobe -- 15. Faith healing and vaccination against smallpox in nineteenth-century Japan / Hiroshi Kawaguchi -- 16. Living style diseases : parasite infections and Kaoping region's rural environment / Michael Shiyung Liu -- 17. Ecodemics : facing and mediating the risks from the wild / Mika Mervio -- 18. Beyond uncertainty : Industrial hazards and class actions in Taiwan and Japan / Paul Jobin.