ABSTRACT

These essays offer a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study of the ways in which communities of people understand and inhabit their environments. They examine and compare human/environmental interactions in communities across the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Rim, and Asia.

part I|1 pages

Northwest Voices

chapter 1|17 pages

Focusing the Countryside

ByDaniel Kemmis

chapter 2|13 pages

The Instability of Stability

ByJack Ward Thomas

part 4|1 pages

Historical Overviews

chapter 3|23 pages

Asian Perceptions of and Behavior Toward the Natural Environment

ByRhoads Murphey

chapter 4|17 pages

The New Concepts in Conservation

ByJ. Baird Callicott, Karen G. Mumford

part III|1 pages

Living a Landscape: Historical and Contemporary Cases

chapter 6|17 pages

Idealizing Wilderness in Medieval Chinese Poetry

ByXiaoshan Yang

chapter 7|22 pages

The State Remains, but Mountains and Rivers Are Destroyed

ByAllan G. Grapard

chapter 8|17 pages

Big Water, Great River: Two Ways of Seeing the Columbia

ByWilliam L. Lang

chapter 10|15 pages

China's Environment: Resilient Myths and Contradictory Realities

ByVaclav Smil

part IV|1 pages

Moving Beyond Boundaries