Description
Multidisciplinary Studies on the Environment and Civilization draws on research from a diverse range of fields across the humanities, social and natural sciences to discover what is needed to develop an affluent, sustainable and resilient world for the twenty-first century and beyond.
The contributions throughout this volume build and promote frameworks for an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability both in and beyond Japan. Utilizing research efforts from a broad range of fields such as zoology, biological anthropology and archaeology, these multidisciplinary studies are brought together to assess the impacts humans have had on the environment as well as the role of civilization, culture and heritage in environmental history.
This book provides a truly multidisciplinary approach to environmental issues and will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in fields such as climate, geology, plant taxonomy and marine science as well as those with an interest in Japanese history, archaeology, art and literature.
Table of Contents
Preface- Yoshinori Yasuda
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Great Wave of the Anthropocene
Mark J. Hudson
Part I: Natural History and Environmental History: Building Interdisciplinary Frameworks
Chapter 2. The Fishes of Shizuoka: A History of Fish- Fauna Research and Some Future Perspectives
Kōichi Shibukawa
Chapter 3. Lake Varves and Environmental History
Kazuyoshi Yamada
Chapter 4. The Geological Record of Tsunamis in the Anthropocene
Daisuke Sugawara
Chapter 5. Stable and Radiocarbon Isotope Measurements to Reconstruct the Diet and Age of Human Skeletal Remains during the Jōmon Period
Sōichirō Kusaka
Chapter 6. Mount Fuji and Waka Poetry
Kazuha Tashiro
Chapter 7. Mt. Fuji and the Tokugawa Shogunate
Jin Matsushima
Part II: Culture, Civilization and the Environment
Chapter 8. Biogeography of Pantropical Plants with Sea-Drifted Seeds
Kōji Takayama
Chapter 9. Fuji Mine Shugyō: An Introduction to Mountain Ascetic Practices on Mount Fuji
Yasumasa Ōtaka
Part III: Environment and cultures: East/West
Chapter 10. Neolithisation: A Perspective from the East Asian Inland Seas
Junzō Uchiyama
Chapter 11. Global Environmental Justice and the Natural Environment in Japanese Archaeology
Mark J. Hudson
