Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the
damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing.
Coming to grips with contemporary problems, this book argues,
depends on understanding how people have historically generated,
perceived, and responded to environmental change. This work
explores interactions between society and environment in China s
most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the
coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth-century
expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in
the 1970s.
This history of Zhoushan s fisheries illuminates long-term
environmental processes and analyzes the intersections of local,
regional, and transnational ecological trends and the array of
private and state interests that shaped struggles for the control
of these common-pool natural resources. What institutions did
private and state actors use to regulate the use of the fishery?
How did relationships between social organizations and the state
change over time? What types of problems could these arrangements
solve and which not? What does the fate of these institutions tell
us about environmental change in late imperial and modern China?
Answering these questions will give us a better understanding of
the relationship between past ecological changes and present
environmental challenges.
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