Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization Japanese Perspectives

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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.

Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization 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.

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
      Koichi 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 Jomon Period
      Soichiro 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
      Koji Takayama
Chapter 9. Fuji Mine Shugyo: An Introduction to Mountain Ascetic Practices on Mount Fuji
      Yasumasa Otaka

Part III: Environment and cultures: East/West
Chapter 10. Neolithisation: A Perspective from the East Asian Inland Seas
      Junzo Uchiyama
Chapter 11. Global Environmental Justice and the Natural Environment in Japanese Archaeology
      Mark J. Hudson

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Biography

Yoshinori Yasuda is the Director of the Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan, a Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and Professor Emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.

Mark J. Hudson is Professor at the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre for Mountain Research, Shizuoka, Japan and a Research Associate at the Institut d'Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon, France.