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1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Roots and values inherent in modern development / Ivan Head -- The Pacific after Rio: population, consumption, and the environment / Arthur Hanson -- Modern communications and opportunities for pro-environmental networking in East Asia / Jan Walls -- Traditional and modern institutions and the commons / Elizabeth A. Wilman and R. Douglas Burch -- Ecofeminism, religion, gender, hierarchy, and environment / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Pacific North American first peoples and the environment / Nancy Turner and Richard Atleo -- Mountains, water, wood, and fish: Chinese and Japanese perspectives on nature and ecology / Jan Walls and Masao Kunihiro -- Immigration, environment, and public policy in Australia / Fazal Rizvi -- Forest management in British Columbia: the transition to sustainability / Stephen Owen and David Greer -- Water in the Columbia River Basin: from a source of permanence to an instrument for economic growth / David H. Getches -- Changed land, changed lives: energy and the Aborigines in the Russian Pacific / Vassily I. Sokolov -- Social values and development patterns in South China: the case of the Pearl River Delta region in the 1900s / Graham E. Johnson and Yuen-fong Woon. |
| Summary |
"The most vigorously developing economies and largest markets today are located on the Pacific Rim, suggesting that the economic "center of gravity" is shifting from the shores of the North Atlantic. Yet the Pacific Rim is also the location of much of the earth's natural beauty as well as the home of still-thriving traditional aboriginal societies. The Pacific Basin's environmental assets and its aboriginal peoples are confronted by the forces of development. The resulting tension between traditional and modern approaches to the environment are addressed in this book by an interdisciplinary team of scientists, social scientists, and humanists."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- Pacific Area.
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Economic development -- Environmental aspects. |
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Pacific Area. |
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Pacific Area -- Economic conditions.
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Economic conditions. |
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Pacific Area -- Environmental conditions.
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Environmental conditions. |
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Environmental policy -- Pacific Area.
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NATURE -- Natural Resources. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics. |
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Environmental policy. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business. |
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Ecology. |
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Economic history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Coward, Harold G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998 0791438457 (DLC) 98009800 (OCoLC)38438432 |
| ISBN |
0585075344 (electronic book) |
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9780585075341 (electronic book) |
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0791438457 |
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0791438465 |
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