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I was born and bred in a small Korean village soaked in traditional East Asian environmental ideas. I learned cultural geography and Western-European environmental ideas at Berkeley, California, especially from Carl Sauer and Clarence Glacken. In New Zealand, I studied Maori environmental ideas which are an important tradition of the indigenous people of the land. I wish to use what I have learned from these three cultures in an attempt to discuss some critical points on the nature and origin of Western and Eastern environmental ideas.
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Yoon, Hk. (2003). A Preliminary Attempt to Give a Birdseye View on the Nature of Traditional Eastern (Asian) and Western (European) Environmental Ideas. In: Ehlers, E., Gethmann, C.F. (eds) Environment across Cultures. Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07058-1_9
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