He is author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 and The Lost Wolves of Japan. Publisher: University of Washington Press. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan. Walker, rejects reductionist or single explanations for what he terms our ‘current environmental mess’, instead he argues for a ‘hybrid causation model’ (p. Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan available in Hardcover, Paperback, eBook. Walker is Regents' Professor and department chair of history and philosophy at Montana State University, Bozeman. Toxic Archipelago offers a unique view of the history of industrial diseases in Japan by exploring the relationship between man, industrialisation and the environment. Walker, Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan, University of Washington Press, 2010. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years ― and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.Ībout the Author: Brett L. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos.This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the. He is the author of The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800, The Lost Wolves of Japan, and Toxic Archipelago: A. Toxic Archipelago explores how toxic pollution works its way into porous human bodies and brings unimaginable pain to some of them. Toxins moved freely from mines, factory sites, and rice paddies into human bodies. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago.ĭuring the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human transformed by an engineered, industrialized, and poisonous environment. Our lives depend on these relationships ― and are imperiled by them as well. This powerful, probing book demonstrates how the Japanese archipelago has become industrialized over the last two hundred years - and how people and the environment have suffered as a consequence.Synopsis: Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers. Brett Walker examines startling case studies of industrial toxins that know no boundaries: deaths from insecticide contaminations poisonings from copper, zinc, and lead mining congenital deformities from methylmercury factory effluents and lung diseases from sulfur dioxide and asbestos. Our lives depend on these relationships - and are imperiled by them as well. Every person on the planet is entangled in a web of ecological relationships that link farms and factories with human consumers.
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