The Green Archipelago

Forestry in Preindustrial Japan

By: Conrad Totman

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Paperback | 15 November 1998

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This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totmanâs widely acclaimed study of Japanâs environmental policies over the centuries.
Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japanâs steeply mountainous woodland has remained biologically healthy despite centuries of intensive exploitation by a dense human population that has always been dependent on wood and other forest products. Mindful that in global terms this has been a rare outcome, and one that bears directly on Japanâs recent experience as an affluent, industrial society, Totman examines the causes, forms, and effects of forest use and management in Japan during the millennium to 1870. He focuses mainly on the centuries after 1600 when the Japanese found themselves driven by their own excesses into programs of woodland protection and regenerative forestry.

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"This book is a seminal work. It is impassioned, timely history that contributes by its sweep, subject, and approach. Because the author examines a wide variety of factors, including economics, politics, institutions, population, culture, and the environment, the book is a model of sound historical thinking."

-- Journal of Asian Studies

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List of Illustrations
Foreword
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface to the First Edition
A Brief Chronology
Maps
Introduction: An Overview of Preindustrial Japanese Forest History	p. 1
A Millennium of Exploitation Forestry	p. 7
The Ancient Predation, 600-850	p. 9
Forests and Forestry in Medieval Japan, 1050-1550	p. 34
Timber Depletion during the Early Modern Predation, 1570-1670	p. 50
The Emergence of Regenerative Forestry in Early Modern Japan	p. 81
The Negative Regimen: Forest Regulation	p. 83
Silviculture: Its Principles and Practice	p. 116
Plantation Forestry: Economic Aspects of Its Emergence	p. 130
Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 171
Bibliographical Essay: Scholarship on Preindustrial Japanese Forestry, 1880-1980	p. 191
Notes	p. 215
Glossaries	p. 253
Bibliography	p. 263
Index	p. 291
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