Economic History of Energy and Environment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sugiyama, S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan,
• Subjects: History.; Energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Economic growth.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Economic Growth.; History, general.; Sustainable Development.; Energy Economics.

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia.   Th...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction:Sugiyama
• Chapter 1 From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan (Sugiyama and Yamada)
• Chapter 2 National railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan (Yamaguchi)
• Chapter 3 A history of the ecology and environmental conditions in China (Ueda)
• Chapter 4 The problem of air pollution in the British Industrial Revolution: the enactment of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821.