Hot off the press today is Catherine’s article on satoyama, the semi-managed nature in rural Japan, which has been published in the latest issue of Asian Studies Review. The article is highly topical, because satoyama was a prominent theme in this year’s Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, which was just held in Nagoya, Japan last month. Continue reading
2010
Top posts for the quarter
We are approaching the end of March, so it must be time for the top five posts of the first quarter. Coming in at number one – by a healthy margin – is Our favourite Californian – the history of Radiata pine forestry in NZ … who would have thought? At number 2, there continues to be huge interest around our most polluted river – the Manawatu – with only the rare day passing without at least a few hits on this post. Few surprises about the next most popular posts … lawnmowers, Nga Manu Nature Reserve and Jeanette Fitzsimons – perhaps an unlikely combination anywhere else, but not here! Click on the links below to read the posts.
1. Our favourite Californian – the history of Radiata pine forestry in NZ
2. Manawatu River – pollution concerns date back to 1890
3. The lawnmower – the great New Zealand love affair
4. A Kapiti environmental history – Nga Manu
5. Jeanette Fitzsimons: how our attitudes towards the environment have changed 1974 -2010
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