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Japan at nature's edge : the environmental context of a global power / edited by Ian Jared Miller, Julia Adeney Thomas, and Brett L. Walker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Honolulu: University of Hawai'I Press, 2013Description: xiv, 322 pages : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780824836924 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780824838768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.20952 23 J355
Contents:
Writing Japan at nature's edge / Ian Jared Miller -- The pelagic empire / William M. Tsutsui -- From meat to machine oil / Jakobina Arch -- Fisheries build up the nation / Micah Muscolino -- Talking sulfur dioxide / Takehiro Watanabe -- Constructing nature / Philip C. Brown -- Toroku / Timothy S. George -- Fecal matters / David L. Howell -- Weathering Fuji / Andrew Bernstein -- Animal histories / Christine L. Marran -- Inventorying nature / Federico Marcon -- Japanese literature and environmental crises / Karen Thornber -- Japanese environmental policy / Ken'ichi Miyamoto -- An envirotechnical disaster / Sara B. Pritchard -- Postcrisis Japanese nuclear policy / Daniel P. Aldrich -- Using Japan to think globally / Julia Adeney Thomas.
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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Read Japan Project 304.20952 J355 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2013 01 Available G000505
Total holds: 0

Papers from a conference held in the fall of 2008 near Big Sky, Montana.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Writing Japan at nature's edge / Ian Jared Miller -- The pelagic empire / William M. Tsutsui -- From meat to machine oil / Jakobina Arch -- Fisheries build up the nation / Micah Muscolino -- Talking sulfur dioxide / Takehiro Watanabe -- Constructing nature / Philip C. Brown -- Toroku / Timothy S. George -- Fecal matters / David L. Howell -- Weathering Fuji / Andrew Bernstein -- Animal histories / Christine L. Marran -- Inventorying nature / Federico Marcon -- Japanese literature and environmental crises / Karen Thornber -- Japanese environmental policy / Ken'ichi Miyamoto -- An envirotechnical disaster / Sara B. Pritchard -- Postcrisis Japanese nuclear policy / Daniel P. Aldrich -- Using Japan to think globally / Julia Adeney Thomas.

Library Read Japan Project

Embassy of Japan in Bangladesh