Thursday, May 20, 2010
Mountains, the Asiatic Brown Bear and conservation in Japan and New Zealand
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Podcast Episode Summary
This episode of Exploring Environmental History features an interview with Japanologist and environmental historian Cath Knight. In her spare time she maintains the blog envirohistory NZ which explores the environmental history of New Zealand. On the podcast Cath briefly talks about the origins and topics of the blog before exploring her work on Japanese environmental history. She will discuss Japanese conservation history, in particular in relation to the Asiatic brown bear and the conceptualisation of uplands and mountains in Japanese and Maori folklore.
Music credit: Time Decay by morgantj available from ccMixter
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