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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Tác giả chính: Coggins, Chris, 1963-
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press ©2003.
Loạt:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wr4f1
Mục lục:
  • 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.