A cross-cultural dialogue on the cultural and environmental history of mountains in China.
This issue of RCC Perspectives uses mountains as a common denominator around which to discuss overarching challenges of environmental history: challenges relating not only to mountain landscapes, but also to broader questions of sources, methods, cross-cultural research, project scale, and audience. Each author discusses some of their most intriguing discoveries, resulting in a brief and diverse collection of environmental history snapshots.
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Rural villagers in China have a sophisticated awareness of the risks they face due to pollution, yet they often feel that they are helpless to improve their situation.
This issue of RCC Perspectives offers insights into similarities and differences in the ways people in Asia have tried to master and control the often unpredictable and volatile environments of which they were part
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Richard B. Harris discusses China’s policies in wildlife conservation, particularly with regard to endangered species to suggest that Western criticisms of Chinese utilitarian attitudes are inappropriate, ineffective, and possibly counter-productive.
Paul G. Harris analyzes the reasons for pollution and overuse of resources in China which have profound implications for the Chinese people and the world.
This essay highlights the temporal and conceptual novelty of biocultural diversity, considering how we can understand biocultural diversity in relation to power, history, and the role of governance. The essay shows how these questions arise by looking at their emergence in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province.
This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Christian Pfister examines disaster memory and risk culture. In contrast to the memory of war, the memory of natural disaster is markedly short-lived in a globalized world, yet such memory should be preserved in order to minimize the impact of similar disasters in the future.
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