Pub Date : 2015-01-01DOI: 10.4324/9780203083307-17
Dong Xiao-pin
Many historians today prefer to speak of knowledge and practice rather than science and technology.Here I argue for the value of reinstating the terms science,techniques and technology as tools for a more precise analysis of governmentality and the workings of power.My tactic is to use these three categories and their articulations to highlight flows between matter and ideas in the production and reproduction of knowledge.In any society,agriculture offers a wonderfully rich case of how ideas,material goods and social relations interweave.In Chinaagronomy was a science of state,the basis of legitimate rule.I compare different genres of agronomic treatise to highlight what officials,landowners and peasants respectively contributed to,and expected from,this charged natural knowledge.I ask how new forms of textual and graphic inscription for encoding agronomic knowledge facilitated its dissemination and ask how successful this knowledge proved when rematerialized and tested as concrete artefacts or techniques.I highlight forms of innovation in response to crisis,and outline the overlapping interpretative frameworks within which the material applications of Chinese agricultural science confirmed and extended its truth across space and time.
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On the basis of hydrological data in the East River basin, South China during the past five decades, the impact of land use changes and vegetation cover changes on the hydrological system of the basin is analyzed in this study. It was found that the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in the basin is not significantly correlated with natural runoff, annual evapotranspiration or runoff coefficient. Changes in the conditions of the underlying surface of the river basin arising from land use/land cover changes are the primary factor affecting runoff in the East River basin and are the main impact factor for the increase of runoff in the river basin. Changes in the hydrological system of the East River basin are subject to the impact of complex factors, typically the joint impact of climatic changes and human activities.
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Environmental Education(EE) and Education for Sustainable Development(ESD) are similar and relevant in many respects,though the time and background that they were put forward is different.There are various opinions about their relationship both inland and abroad,all of which may be summed up into five main points:(i) the two are identical;(ii) ESD is part of EE;(iii) EE is part of ESD;(iv) ESD does not include EE,but they share some parts;and(v) ESD is an advanced stage of EE.The present analysis shows that the two are interactive: EE is part of ESD,but provides a foundation for ESD.So there requires a re-orientation of EE for sustainable development,but ESD has functions of its own.
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