Green Archipelago : Forestry in Pre-Industrial Japan, The

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; A Brief Chronology; Maps; Introduction: An Overview of Preindustrial Japanese Forest History; Part One: A Millennium of Exploitation Forestry; 1. The Ancient Predation, 600850; 2. Forests and Forestry in Medieval Japan, 10501550; 3. Timber Depletion during the Early Modern Predation, 15701670; Part Two: The Emergence of Regenerative Forestry in Early Modern Japan; 4. The Negative Regimen: Forest Regulation; 5. Silviculture: Its Principles and Practice; 6. Plantation Forestry: Economic Aspects of Its Emergence; 7. Land-Use Patterns and Afforestation.
ConclusionBibliographical Essay: Scholarship on Preindustrial Japanese Forestry, 18801980; Notes; Glossaries; General Glossary; Glossary of Vegetation; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
The Japanese are conscious of the lush green of their homeland, which they refer to as 'the green archipelago'. This work states that this lush verdue is not a monument to nature's benevolence and Japanese aesthetic sensibilities, but the hard-earned result of generations of human toil that converted the archipelago into one great forest preserve.