1st Edition
Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization Japanese Perspectives
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
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 a researcher in the Eurasia3angle project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, and a Research Associate at the Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon, France.
