The tiger and the pangolin : nature, culture, and conservation in China /
This original and wide-ranging work examines historical perceptions of nature in China and the relationship between insider and outsider, state and village, top-down conservation policy and community autonomy. After an introduction to the history of wildlife conservation and nature reserve managemen...
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| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press
©2003.
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| Σειρά: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr4f1 |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Introduction: a short history of nature conservation in China
- A mountain mosaic: biological and cultural diversity
- Lord of the hundred beasts: a history of tigers and people in southeast China
- The wealth of mountains: settlement, subsistence, and population change in Meihuashan before 1949
- Three rises, two falls: political ecology and socioeconomic development in Meihuashan after 1949
- Burning the mountains: a historical landscape ecology of the Meihuashan ecosystem
- Habitat conservation in the post-reform landscape
- White tigers and Azure dragons: Fengshui forests, sacred space, and the preservation of biodiversity in village landscapes
- Eating from the mountain: hunting traditions, the wildlife trade, and wildlife management
- Vital connections: linking nature conservation and cultural ecology in southeast China and beyond.