Economic History of Energy and Environment

Chapter 1 From Firewood to Coal: Deforestation and the Development of the Silk Reeling Industry in Modern Japan

Chapter 3 The History of Ecological Environment: Ideas Derived from Chinese Research

Chapter 4 The Problem of Air Pollution During the Industrial Revolution: A Reconsideration of the Enactment of the Smoke Nuisance Abatement Act of 1821

Chapter 5 Review of Seiichi Andō, Kinsei Kōgaishi no Kenkyū (The History of Environmental Pollution in Early Modern Japan)

Chapter 6 Review of Takeo Kikkawa, Nihon Denryokugyō Hatten no Dainamizumu (Dynamism in the Development of Japan’s Electric Power Industry)

Chapter 7 Review of Yoshihiro Ogino (ed.) Kindai Nihon no Enerugī to Kigyō Katsudō: Hokubu Kyūshū Chiiki o Chūshin to Shite (Energy and Corporate Activities in Modern Japan: The Case of Northern Kyūshū)

Chapter 8 Review of J. R. McNeill, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (20 Seiki Kankyō Shi. Translated by Masatomo Umitsu and Tsunetoshi Mizoguchi)