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Week II: April 8th and 10th
Nature and Public Policy in East Asia
Wednesday:
Nature Preserves and Tourism
Friday:
Population, Industrialization, and Pollution
Discussion:
- How would you describe the social and global forces that have led to the creation of nature preserves in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China?
- What is the contrast between Malthusian and Marxist views on population?
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Where are the countries in East Asia now on population policy?
- How different is environmental policy in democratic versus authoritarian societies?
Reading: (summary due)
- Weller, Discovering Nature, chaps 4-7.
- Bryan Tilt, "Civil Society and the Politics of Pollution Enforcement" (Chapter 6 of The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China.) (See course web site)
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