The Green Archipelago: Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan

by Conrad D. Totman

Book Overview

This inaugural volume in the Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History is the paperback edition of Conrad Totman's widely acclaimed study of Japan's environmental policies over the centuries.

Professor Totman raises the critical question of how Japan's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412558
• ISBN13: 9780821412558
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"