Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically
examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using
local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new
frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental,
social, and economic change across China and Japan. The volume opens up
new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East
Asia, Europe, and North America. Environment, Modernization and
Development in East Asia adds significant new perspectives to Chinese,
Japanese, and global environmental history, as well as world history and
development studies.