Traditional and modern approaches to the environment on the Pacific Rim : tensions and values / edited by Harold Coward ; with a foreword by Maurice Strong.

Other author Coward, Harold G.
Format Book
Publication InfoAlbany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©1998.
Descriptionviii, 260 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

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 Reuther -- 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.
Local noteLittle-321975--305131019940-
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98009800
ISBN0791438457 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0791438465 (pbk. : alk. paper)