[PDF] The Ecology Of War In China eBook

Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,7 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1107071569

GET BOOK

This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan that raged during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-1943, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.

Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Henan Sheng (China)
ISBN : 9781316189634

GET BOOK

This book explores the interplay between war and the environment in Henan Province from 1938-50.

Author : Eliana Cusato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 38,84 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108837522

GET BOOK

Unpacks key assumptions about the 'environment', its relationship with violent conflict, and the justification for its protection underlying international law.

Author : Micah S. Muscolino
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,16 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674035980

GET BOOK

This work explores interactions between society and environment in China's most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its 19th-century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s.

Author : Ying Jia Tan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501758977

GET BOOK

In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare. Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China's electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japanese invasion that robbed China of 97 percent of its generative capacity. Along the way, he demonstrates that power industries became an integral part of the nation's military-industrial complex, showing how competing regimes asserted economic sovereignty through the nationalization of electricity. Based on a wide range of published records, engineering reports, and archival collections in China, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States, Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 argues that, even in times of peace, the Chinese economy operated as though still at war, constructing power systems that met immediate demands but sacrificed efficiency and longevity. Thanks to generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through The Sustainable History Monograph Pilot, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Author : Michael J. Hathaway
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520276205

GET BOOK

Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as “the revenge of wild elephants.”

Author : Ling Zhang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107155983

GET BOOK

This book explores the human-engineered flooding of China's Yellow River, and how it affected the state, environment, and inhabitants of the region.

Author : David A. Pietz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 36,3 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0674966929

GET BOOK

Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain—home to 200 million people—the Yellow River sustains one of China’s core regions. Yet this vital water supply has become highly vulnerable in recent decades, with potentially serious repercussions for China’s economic, social, and political stability. The Yellow River is an investigative expedition to the source of China’s contemporary water crisis, mapping the confluence of forces that have shaped the predicament that the world’s most populous nation now faces in managing its water reserves. Chinese governments have long struggled to maintain ecological stability along the Yellow River, undertaking ambitious programs of canal and dike construction to mitigate the effects of recurrent droughts and floods. But particularly during the Maoist years the North China Plain was radically re-engineered to utilize every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectric generation. As David A. Pietz shows, Maoist water management from 1949 to 1976 cast a long shadow over the reform period, beginning in 1978. Rapid urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification over the past three decades of China’s economic boom have been realized on a water resource base that was acutely compromised, with effects that have been more difficult and costly to overcome with each passing decade. Chronicling this complex legacy, The Yellow River provides important insight into how water challenges will affect China’s course as a twenty-first-century global power.

Author : Jay E. Austin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521780209

GET BOOK

The environmental devastation caused by military conflict has been witnessed in the wake of the Vietnam War, the Gulf War and the Kosovo conflict. This book brings together leading international lawyers, military officers, scientists and economists to examine the legal, political, economic and scientific implications of wartime damage to the natural environment and public health. The book considers issues raised by the application of humanitarian norms and legal rules designed to protect the environment, and the destructive nature of war. Contributors offer an analysis and critique of the existing law of war framework, lessons from peacetime environmental law, means of scientific assessment and economic valuation of ecological and public health damage, and proposals for future legal and institutional developments. This book provides a contemporary forum for interdisciplinary analysis of armed conflict and the environment, and explores ways to prevent and redress wartime environmental damage.