Landscape Change and Resource Utilization in East Asia

Borders and mosaics, East and West : landscape organization in environmental history / J. Donald Hughes -- Writing the twentieth-century history of water on the north China plain / David Pietz -- Land use change in a mountainous area during the last 300 years from the perspective of the spatial evolution of settlements : the case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China / Renlong Huo -- Taming the black snake : flooding disasters and river regulation of the Zengwen River in colonial Taiwan / Ya-wen Ku -- Transformation through inundation : riziculturing Muslim identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan / David A. Bello -- The role of plant factories in food production and technology in Japan / Kaihei Koshio -- Eco-city development in Japan / Kentarou Inoue -- Ecological construction in coastal southeast China / Ts'ui-jung Liu -- Building the sustainable city of Yilan : the development of environmental governance learning capacity / Huang-Jyuhn Wang and He-Liang Huang -- Nature worship and the environment in Song China / Jin Liu and Lei Kang -- The mountain spirits and lake monsters of Xinjiang Province during the Qing Dynasty / Chuanfei Liu