Multidisciplinary Studies of the Environment and Civilization

Yoshinori Yasuda is the Director of the Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka, Japan, a Professor at Ritsumeikan University, and Professor Emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan.Mark J. Hudson is a researcher in the Eurasia3angle project at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany, and a Research Associate at the Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS de Lyon, France.

• Preface- Yoshinori YasudaChapter 1. Introduction: The Great Wave of the Anthropocene Mark J. HudsonPart I: Natural History and Environmental History: Building Interdisciplinary FrameworksChapter 2. The Fishes of Shizuoka: A History of Fish- Fauna Research and Some Future PerspectivesKōichi ShibukawaChapter 3. Lake Varves and Environmental HistoryKazuyoshi YamadaChapter 4. The Geological Record of Tsunamis in the AnthropoceneDaisuke SugawaraChapter 5. Stable and Radiocarbon Isotope Measurements to Reconstruct the Diet and Age of Human Skeletal Remains during the Jōmon PeriodSōichirō KusakaChapter 6. Mount Fuji and Waka PoetryKazuha Tashiro Chapter 7. Mt. Fuji and the Tokugawa ShogunateJin Matsushima Part II: Culture, Civilization and the EnvironmentChapter 8. Biogeography of Pantropical Plants with Sea-Drifted SeedsKōji TakayamaChapter 9. Fuji Mine Shugyō: An Introduction to Mountain Ascetic Practices on Mount FujiYasumasa ŌtakaPart III: Environment and cultures: East/WestChapter 10. Neolithisation: A Perspective from the East Asian Inland SeasJunzō Uchiyama Chapter 11. Global Environmental Justice and the Natural Environment in Japanese ArchaeologyMark J. Hudson